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Connecticut western news., 1889-12-04
NEW ENGLAND NEWS.

Lynn citizens are circulating petitions re- garding the erection Of new buildings in that city which, it is believed, will reduce fire risks very greatly.
 The daughter of Major Michaeis of Augusta, Me-, military Commandant of the United States Arsenal, was drowned a few days ago.
 feed his own life the other day to save those of his passengers.
 Giuseppe De Lucca, an Italian tailor. ar- rested for the murder of MT. Edward Gun ningham at Milton, Mass, has confessed the crime to Police Captain Cain.
 A child of George Aylward of Salem, Mass. tipped lamp over on to him and was so badly burned that he died of his injuries.
 Benjamin B. Callan, 8 wel-known young story window in Merchants Exchange Building, Elm street, and was killed.
 Dr. Franklin Barnard, botanical physician, died at Worcester, Mass, a few days ago, aged 30 years. His remedies, which were never patented, had a large sale the world over.
 An important rumor regarding insurance matters, as far as it relates to local insurance company, is given out at Nashua, N. H. namely that the Granite State of Portsmouth has reinsured all risks of the Capital Fire Association of Nashua, one of the strongest in the state. This action virtually winds up the Capital, which has q handsome surplus.
 State DetectiveHayter has been in Athol, Mass., working on the burglary of the Stowell mansion, but he gained no clew. Traces were discovered, to-day, of an attempt to enter Judge Fields and Dr. Smiths residences on School street. MT. Stowelrs loss will reach fully $25 900 on negotiable securities.
 An offer has been made by syndicate who wants to secure control of majority of the stock of the Crystal Spring bleachery at As sonet, Mass, of $50 share, on condition that the majority can be secured at that figure. In the event of the bleachery changing hands a change in m nagement will ensue. The bleschery has never yet paid dividend to share owners. .'
 A strikingly picturesque character is re. moved from South Hadley Falls, Mass., in the death of William Price, at the age of 82 years, who was probably the oldest settler iu the town. During the late war he served as drummer, and it has been his practice ever since to usher in each Fourth of July morn. ing by sounding the long roll. William Wilson was found dead in his bed in the Hampden county jail the other day Medical Examiner Beck pronounced it a case of heart disease. Wilson was serving sen- tence for grand larceny, having plead guilty to entering the house of E. NJ. Bartlett in May.
 Terrence Kiernan, whose trial for the murder of Cleary at Union City, resulted ir a disagreement, has been released on $15OO bail.
Connecticut western news., 1889-12-04
New Streets in Rome.

Since 1882 eighty-two miles of streets have been built, paved and drained in Rome at cost of $50, ,OOO,- 900, and 5000 houses erected in large, modern blocks, where old quarters for merly stood, and five new bridges thrown across the Fiber. In conse- quence of these improvements the old city has been so much changed that the visitor of twenty years ago would hardly recognize if.
Connecticut western news., 1889-12-04
Travellers Guide.
Housatonic Railroad.
MAIN LINE.l NOv C0 1900

Nov. 20, 1889. Passenger trains leave Canaan. GOING NORTH $40 q. m., for Pittsti.ld, North Adams also Albany, via. State Line. 12.30 D. m.. for Pittsted and Albany, via State Line. Connecting for the West 621 p. m.. New York limited Express to Pittstield, via. South Norwalk and Hawley- vile, connecting for No. Adams composed of elegant new Drawing Room Cars and Coaches. 7.2l D. m., New York Express, with through Car for Pittsfeld, connecting for North Adams, connecting also via. State Line for Albany. 10.14 a. m., Sunday Mail for Pittsfed.
 LEAVE CANAAN, GOING SOUTH. $40 a. m., for Bridgeport and New York with through car. 3.O5 D. m., Milk for Bridgeport. 2.33 D. m. for Bridgeport and New York, with through coach. 5.27 D. m., New York limited Express, via. Hawleyvile and South Norwalk, arriving in New York at 300 p. III. 6.3S p. m.. for Bridgeport and New York. Sunday Milk. 3.45 p. Ill. for Bridgeport and New York.
 Connect at Brookfeld Junction with trains to and from Danbury.
 VIM. II. STEVENSON,
 Vice-Pres't and Gen'l Manager.
 A. w. PERRIN,
 Gen. Pass. Agt.
Connecticut western news., 1889-12-04
OHIO TAKES A BACK SEAT.
Some Other State to Furnish 8 Successor
 Stanley Matthews.

Some Other State to Furnish Successor to
 Stanley Matthews.
 A number of Ohio lawyers have been in Washington during the past week urging President Harrison to appoint Gen. T. w. Sanderson of Youngstown to the United Stanley Matthews. The President informed them that the appointment. would not be given Ohio. The President argued that Ohio had been given more than her share, as in 25 years she had furnished Chief Justices Chase and Waite and Justices Swayne and Mat thews, while the late Judge Woods, although appointed from Mississippi, was practically an Ohio man, as he left the state after the war and always considered Ohio his home. From what Senator Sherman told of the in- terview, it is possible that Alfred Russell of Detroit will be appointed.
Connecticut western news., 1889-12-04
THE STORM IN LAKE MICHIGAN.
Five Vessels Wrecked on Gray's Reef
 Heavy Property Loss.

Five Vessels Wrecked on Gray's Reef
 Heavy Property Loss.
 The Troja is ashore on Gray's reef. The Queen and Whitney are in the same condi- tion. All the lighters and several large tugs, with about 100 men, have gone to unload the cargoes. The Troja's cargo of flour and package freight will be ightered off and taken to Chyboygan, Mich. The amount of property now on Gray's reef represents near- ly $1 00O,00 The Red Wing is probably a total loss. Her decks have started, and she is otherwise badly injured, but, owing to the large amount of ice clinging to her the full amount of damage cannot be known. The other schooner in distress is the H. w. Sage. The Sage struck the beach, Wednesday, and is a total loss.
Connecticut western news., 1889-12-04
The Champion Voter.

The champion voter" of New York city is Abraham Tappan, father of Frederick D. Tappan, the president of the Gallatin Bank. He is ninety-four years old and cast his scventy-second vote on Tuesday, and thereby added to the Democratic majority. Mir. Tappan bears his years well. He docs not look over sixty, and is as firm and erect as young man
Connecticut western news., 1889-12-04
TO MEET DEATH BY ELECTRICITY
Condemned Murderer to Be Executed Be-
 tween Dec. and 16.

Charles McElvaine, the condemned Brook lyn murderer, unless his lawyer obtains q respite, will be executed by electricity be- tween sunrise on Monday, Dec. 9, and sun set on Monday, Dec. 16. The new brick building in which the execution is to take place will soon be completed. Its walls are l5 inches thick. The building will contain placed in the walls, about 15 feet from the ground, so that no one can look from the outside into the building. The electric chair in which McEvaine will meet death will be erected in the middle of the room. The dynamos, two in number, have combined capacity of 2OOO volts. The wire used will be strung from the roof down the walls of the building, and will be connected with the chair. It will take 700 feet of wire to con- meet the circuit.
Connecticut western news., 1889-12-04
BOSTON'S SECOND VISIT.
Another Conaagration Involving Mill
 lions.
Four Acres of the Business Portion of tho
 City in Ashes.

"Doston is again on tirer' This is the cry that swept over the country on Thanksgiving Day.
 A gulf of smouidering, seething, smoking ruins is all that remains of what had been previously a group of the finest business blocks in Boston. The work of destruction Is complete. Millions went up in flame and smoke. Four fremen are believed to be buried beneath the fallen walls. Four valu- able pieces of fire apparatus were added to the lost property. It had been the worst visitation of fire in that city since the great confisgration of 1872, and the people were only thankful that it had gone no further than 1t did.
 The area of real estate covered by build ings totally destroyed or badly damaged by fire and water was as follows:
Connecticut western news., 1889-12-04
What He Needed.

Dolley-My appetite is very poor, Miss Amy. don't you know. I cawn't find anything to agree with me.
 Miss Amy-IIave you tried Mush- mellon's food for infants ?-Smith, Gray & Co.'s Monthly.
Connecticut western news., 1889-12-04

This area is about 2A acres. Reckoning the streets in the burned section and the property slightly damaged, the whole terri tory affected by the fire is not less than four acres.
 The first estimate of the total loss of prop elly by the conflagration was undoubtedly placed at an altogether too large figure. Underwriters who were questioned upon the matter on the day of the disaster express ed the belief that the loss would reach round $10, ,0OO ,0OO. but yesterday, when they came to know just what buildings were destroyed, and what firms were burned out. they cut 1t down about one-half. Various insurance men yesterday estimated it at between $4,- OOO, 900 and $5, 900 900. Mir. John c. Paige. the we'll known underwater. ard as compe- tent a person to judge as can be found, says "I feel confident that the entire property loss will not exceed $6, GOO, 900, and the insur- ance loss approximately S4,OOO, ,0OO." MT. c. E. Cotting, real estate agent, places the loss at only $3,0OO, 900.
 During the night the water that was poured upon the debris so cooled it that in the morning ingress was possible to the cen ire of the burned section through all the streets leading to it. At very early hour, before the rumbling of traffic echoed through the down town section, people made their way through the silent streets, all bound for one point of attraction. They were guided by the humming and shrieking of the fire en- zines still at work, and by the dense clouds
  from the ruins and circling through the neighboring thoroughfares. Across the streets, close to the scene of the fire, the barriers of rope and policemen were stretched to keep back the ever increasing crowds. Al every point of vantage hundreds of specta- tors pressed against the ropes and besOught admission by eveiy means at command whether by right or by virtue of their powers of invention. None were admitted, how ever, without proper credentials.
 There still remain many dangerous features in connection with the standing ruins. These are the great frontages of walls on number of the buildings, which reach, tremblingly high into space, and which are liable at any time to totter and crash to the ground, to the very great menace to the firemen and that portion of the public who have been influen- tial enough to secure passes within the firt lines. The granite columns of the upper story of Shaw Bros.' building on Kingston street were very shaky, and Chief Webbel gave the order that they should be pulled down.
Connecticut western news., 1889-12-04
Central New England x Vest
 ern IS. It. Co.
Poughkeepsie Bridge Route.

POughkeepsie Bridge Route.
 Commencing Sept 8. 1889.
 GOING WEST FROM CANAAN. 6.ls g; m: For Poughkcepsie and Campbell 700 a. ID. For Rhinebeck. 9.0G g m. For Poughkeepsie and Campbell Hall, connectingat Mt Riga and pough- keepsie for New York and Albany. l2.30 D. m. For Rhinebeck connecting with tfains on the N. Y. c. < H. R railroad. b27 D. m. For Poughkeepsic and Campbell Hall, connecting with express of N. Y. 0. & w. R E.
 3.45 p. m. Sundays only) For Poughkeep. sic and Campbell Hail.
 GOING EAST FROM CANAAN. 6.10 a. m. For Hartford. $40 8. Ill. For Hartford, connecting at Win. sted for Waterbury and Bridgeport; at Simsbury for Westfield. Northampton, Williamsburg and Holy oke; at Hartford with express for Springfield and Boston and all points North and East, arriving in Boston at 33O p. m.; and for New Ha. limantic, New London. Providence and New York.
 800 p. m. For Hartford connecting at Win sted for Waterbury and Bridgeport; at Siinsbury for Westfield and Holyoke; at Hartford for New Haven. Springfield and Boston, arrive at Boston 9.U0 D. m., via. N. Y. x N. E. R. ls. 72l D m. For Hartford 4.A p. m. Sundays only) For Hartford.
 S. B. OPDYKE, J8., Genr. Supt, N. R. TURNER, Genr Pass. Agent.
Connecticut western news., 1889-12-04
Foreign.

Three thousand coal miners of Essen, at a meeting in Berlin, appointed a committee to seek to remove the lockout against the agi- tators connected with the recent strike.
 The North German Lloyd Steamer Com pany will start . freight service between Bremen and New York in March next. Eight steamers will be placed on the new line.
 In the trial of Maussa Bey, charged with brigandage and outrage in Armen.a, the pub lie prosecutor declared that all the witnesses against the accused ought to be tried for per- jury. The opposing advocate made 8 weak statement.
 Prof. Zdekaner, one of the leading Russian medical authorities, declares his belief that the influenza now prevalent at St. Peters burg Is the forerunner of cholera. Similar signs, he says, preceded the last five cholera epidemicS there.
 The Osservatore Romano, a Catholic news paper at Rome, denies the report that the Pope has instructed Archbishop Satolli to proceed 10 Ireland from the United States for the purpose of reporting on the condition of the former country.
 Count Arco Valley, the German minister to the United States, dined recently with United States Minister Phelps. Count Arco Valley afterward started for London.
 A Zanzibar dispatch to the London Herald says: "Henry M. Stanley, writing from Wikessi under date of Nov. 26, says that his party are all well and enjoying the luxuries sent by Maj. Wissmann. He wants news papers to learn the events of the past three years. He expects to arrive at Zanzibar on Thursday.
 The anti-slavery conference at Brussels adopted resolutions in favor of the establish ment by states possessing African territory of stations, with local military forces, Tor the suppression of slavery, the inland stations to be connected with the coast by railways and by steamers on the great lakes; also for the prohibition of trade iu firearms ill the slave districts, the suppression of cannibalsm and human sacrifices, and the protection of commerce and missions.
Connecticut western news., 1889-12-04

A deal is on foot to continue the present Buffalo, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland and Brooklyn, with association teams at Columbus and St. Louis, merging the Athletic and brotherhood clubs in Phila- delphia, and dropping the Louisville and Baltimore clubs entirely.
Connecticut western news., 1889-12-04

The new paper mill of the G. H. Wheel wright Paper Company at Hardwick, Mass, hae been dnished.
Connecticut western news., 1889-12-04


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Connecticut western news., 1889-12-04
God save our gracious Queen! Long live our noble Queen! God save the Queen!

And then they shouted "Huzza! huzzar Oh, it was a proud day for those returned warriors! But brighter, better and gladder day will come when Christ shall gather those who have toiled in his service, good soldiers of Jesus Christ. He shall rise before them. and in the presence of all the glorified of of heaven he will say: "Well done, good and faithful servant!' and then he will distribute the medals of eternal victory, lot inscribed with works of righteousness which we have done, but with those four great battlefields, dear to earth and dear to heaven, Bethlehem {! Nazareth! Gethsemane! Calvary!
Connecticut western news., 1889-12-04


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Connecticut western news., 1889-12-04

where, It naS csotncu nakeunesS, IL mas preached the gospel, it has overcome hosts of penury and want with the war cry of '.Stitch, stitch, stitch!"
 The operatives have found a livelihood by it, and through it the mansions of the em- ptoyer have been constructed. Amidst the down the conquests of the needle. I admit its crimes; admit it's cruelties. It has had more martyrs than the fire; it has punctured the eye; it has pierced the side; it has struck weakness into the lungs; it has sent madness into the brain; it has filled the potter's field :; into crime and wretchedness and woe. But now that I am talking of Dorcas and her ministries to the poor, shall speak only of the charities of the needle.
 This woman was representative of all those women who make garments for the destitute, who knit socks for the barefooted, who prepare bandages for the lacerated, who fix up boxes of clothing for missionaries, who go into the asylums of the suffering and des- titutc bearing that gospel which is sight for the blind and hearing for the deaf, and which makes the lame man leap like hart, and brings the dead to life, immortal health bounding in their pulses. What a contrast between the practical benevoience of this woman and great deal of the charity of this day! This woman did not spend her time Joppa were to be relieved: she took her needle and relieved them. She was not like those persons who sympathize with imagin- ary sorrows, and go out in the street and laugh at the boy who has upset his basket of cold victuas, or like that charity which makes a rousing speech on the benevolent platform, and goes out to kick the beggar from the step, crying: 'Hush your miserable howl ing!"
 The sufferers of the world want not SO much theory as practice; not so nSHch tears as dollars; not so much kind wishes as loaves of bread; not so much smiles as shoes; not so much "God bless yous!" as jackets and frocks. I will put one earnest Christian man, hard working, against 5000 mere theorists, on the subject of charity. There are great many who have fine ideas about church architecture who never in their life helped to build church. There are men who can give you the history of Buddhism and Mohammedanism, who never sent g
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-21
MUSIC AND MEDICINE
RhsAomsna Regarding the Physical Par.
of Tone Perception.

RhsAomena Regarding the Physical Pare
Of Tone Perception.
The medical side Of music has not yet
been examined as closely as it should
be, particularly in its connection with
eye and ear. There are many phenomena
regarding the physical part of tone per
cepsion that would repay investigation.
Women as q rule can perceive tones
higher than men. The right ear can
perceive tones so high in pitch that they
are inaudible to the left ear. showing
plainly that two sides of the brain are
unequally developed. Most curious is
the phenomenon, observable in certain
cases, of the sudden obliteration of the
sense Of pitch; there are, for an ex-
ample, persons in existence, and they
can be found more frequently than is
suspected, to whom the highest notes OF
the piano are inaudible. The transition
from sound to silence is sometimes very
abrupt, the subject hearing one note dis
tinctly, and another, perhaps semi-tone
above it, not at all. One of the most
palpable cases of decay in the aura1
organs occurred with a very famous
composer, Robert Franz. His nerves
were Frustrated by the sudden piping Of
locomotive behind him, and gradual
and peculiar deafness set in. One by
one the upper tones of the tonal system
vanished until he has become almost
totally insensible to high sounds. The
liability Of all musicians to aural
troubles is but natural result of an
overuse of one set of nerves. Beeth-
ovens deafness was unquestionably SUI
perinduced by an inherited disease, but
1t was in all probability aggravated by
his profession. Schumann suffered in
his late years with false hearing,
symptom of insanity. Blindness attacks
musicians at times, from the severe
strain to which the eyes are subjected,
in many ways Bach became blind pos
sibly because of his arduous application
to music-copying and engraving. Ham
del was also blind in later years,
probably from the cause that
weakens the sight of so many must
clans score-reading. There is no more
abnormal use of the eye Imaginable than
the reading of full orchestral score.
The eye must not only read horizontally
as in piano music, but must be used YER
tically as we'll in a manner that tasks
the nerves beyond any other reading
that exists. Probably the nearsighted-
ness and weakness of sight that is so
characteristic of many musicians, espe-
cially in the foremost ranks, is more di-
rectly traceable to score-reading than to
any other cause. There are other dis
eases which come from a too-constant
application to one instrument, and plan
ist cramp is the direct result of exercis-
ing one set OF muscles only (digita1 and
forearm) and allowing the others to fall
into Observation-Disclosures Musical Herald.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-21
FULL OF FUN.


I'm milking cow, always sit en- the
side furthest from the cow and near .
soft spot in the Milwaukee
Bluff.
The chap who is blasting and puffs At .
While adjusting his little fusee,
Zen tho he mayn't h with experience ripe,
Ought 20 know what the upshot would be.
-Yonkers Gazette.
MIR. Boozy-ssBoy, what is the score"
Boy-sCan't you see the bulletin board?''
Mr.. Booty "a moment later, in front Of .
cheap restaurant)-''Sirloin, IS. Pork
chops, Is. 'Rah for sirloin!''-Judge.
Mrs. Mulligan," said Mrs. Ginty,
sis it well yer falin the day2'' s-Yis,
very we'll" can sthrong?' ''Yis, quite
sthrong." sThen praps its able ye'd be
to bring back the two wash tubs yez
BARRED last NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Tray
eler.
-He-ssThe case of Jacob sometimes,
has q modern parallel. knew a man
once who served five years for his sec
ond wife," She-"Howcromantic He
-ssNot SO remarkably romantic. He
married the second one without getting
a divorce frora his first, and served Eve
years for bigamy, don't you know
Terre Haute Express.
Nose Schaumburg, Jr.-''vader. .
shentlemans wants to know it dot un-
shrinkable undershift don't shrink a
leedle, anyway" Nose Schaumburg,
Sr.-s'Does dot shirt fit him?'' ssNo. ii
vas choost leedle too pig" '-Of course
it will shrink. Wy don't you have some
heads for pishness. Siftings.
-Sam-sWhere you been dis long
TnAn
'sLor', rs been in Heaben; rs mong de
stars you see rs a mejum. rs q
spirit mejumr' Sam-"Huh, huhf dat's
putty good. Look heah, woman, did ye
see any cullud folks dere?'' Miss john
son-'sLor', Sam, you don't s'pose went
into de kitchen, does ye? Huh, huh
Time.
Young Husband Tin railway CARR
emily, you can hold some of this bag
gage on your own lap awhile. The next
time you go on trip with a whole car
load of useless traps and calamities, by
jock, you'll go alone" Interested OBJ
server, two seats back (handing half
dollar to friend)-''You've won, Grind
stone. This isn't their wedding trip
not by year at the very least. Chi
cago Tribune.
AT jewelers. Window-Mr. Rack
straw-''Well, dog my granny's cats,
Nance, look-a-here! If they hain't got
cats eyes for sale in here! I've noshun
to go in an see if they don't want to buy
some. If they do. dad blame me If Z
don't kill off tibet last litter of old Tab,
by's." Mrs. Rackstraw-''Sho, Reubin,
them hain't sure-enough cats eyes
them's made out'n glass" Mr.. Rack
straw-''Blamed if you hain't bout right,
Nance; if them was sure-enough cats
eyes they'd spile, reckon."@The Jew
eler