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Connecticut western news., 1890-12-03
A Boys Prayer.

A little boy who had been punished for an exhibition of ugliness was sent to bed with instructions to pray that he might be a better boy and that his temper might be reformed. His mother -,stole to the door of his room to make sure that her commands were carried out, and this is the prayer that she heard 70 Lord, please take away my bad tenn per. And while you are about it you might as we'll take mother's"- York Evening Sun.
Connecticut western news., 1890-12-03
The Saxon Heptarchy.

Heptarchy, or government of seven rulers, was gradually formed in Eng land from 455, when Hengist became king of Kent. It terminated in 829, when Egbert became sole monarch of England. There were at first nine or ten Saxon kingdoms, but Middlesex soon ceased to exist, and Bernicia and Deira were generally governed by one ruler as Northumbria. Boston Budget.
Connecticut western news., 1890-12-03

William Morris, aged 54, 8 carpenter of Bridgeport, met with fatal accident Thursday. While working on a high staging it gave way and he fell. Both arms, leg and nose were broken and his skull fractured.
 A wild deer is said to be at large near Glastonbury.
 There were l,6OO reasons why Water bury did not engage Stanley for a lecture. $16OO.-Thomaston Express.
 Two hundred pounds of honey have been found in the roof of the Windsor Avenue Cong'l church in Hartford.
 The contract for putting in the wood work in the new residence of Clara Louise Kellogg at New Hartford has been awarded to James Ryan, of Winsted.
Connecticut western news., 1890-12-03
The Newton Journal Attached.

BOSTON, Dec. Mayor Heman M. Burr, Erastus T. Colburn, William K. Webster, R. H. Gardiner and George E. Ellis, of Newton, have caused attachments of $, 1000 each to be placed upon the property of Tho Newton Journal in actions of tort, and . keeper was put in charge of the office. The cause of this action is an article which ap- peared in the paper charging that the above persons entered into trade whereby . MT. Petee was to receive the Republican nom ination for mayor.
Connecticut western news., 1890-12-03

Mir O. s. Garfield, of Winsted, has a few ancient almanacs which are old and quaint enough to deserve notice. They are Beers Almanacs of the years 1872, 1914, 1919. 1927. 1881, 1884, 1835,-and each almanac is of the year when 8 brother or sister of Mir Garfield was born. These almanacs were preserv- ed by MT Canield's mother. MT Can field has 8 collection of Confederate money and also one cent bill of 1915, of the corporation of Hudson, N. Y. It is probably the only one cent bill ever issued, and it is 8 rare curiosity. The S2 bill of continental money is in good preservation, but the others are not. This continental money was paid to MT Caufield's grandfather. who was sol diAf in the revolutionary war Daily Cioiaon.
Connecticut western news., 1890-12-03
Secretary Noble.s Report.


 WASHINGTON. Dec. 1.-The annual report of the secretary of the interior is given out today. It shows that the vacant lands of the United States, exclusive of those in Alaska, at present extend over b0d, ,216, ,881 acres, of which 2s2, ,772 4S9 are already sur veyed. Alaska contains 577, 390 square miles. or 369, ,529, 600 acres, of which not more than 1000 acres have been entered In regard to pensions, he says: 'The ap- propriation for the present year is $07, ,09O,- 78l, but such has been the great number of pensioners added to the list by special acts of congress and the energetic work of the bureau that deficiency appropriation will be required, the amount of which can not yet be accurately stated"
 Tho Taking of the Census.
 After showing what great task the tax ing of the census was the secretary says: ''This census will, it is believed, be found to be reliable. To say that there are no errors in it would be to claim for 1t moro than can be expected of any such work. But those who find the most fault with 1t are those who from the beginning have endeavored to defeat it. The great body of our people are content with it." The secretary does not think the present Nor. mon laws should be changed, regardless of the professions of President Woodruff and other prominent Mormons.
Connecticut western news., 1890-12-03
s.b.cripsion Account.

The date on the colored slip of paper with che name of the subscriber shows the time to which the subscription is paid: thus, K. B. Smith 5juls9 indicates that MT Smith has paid for his paper to July 5, 1889: It is hoped that subscribers will see to it that their account as indicated by the date on their papers, is always correct, and when they pay for a re- renewal of their subscription will observe whether their date is changed to indicate the proper credit, and in the event of an error to inform us for correction at once. No claims for errors in these accounts will hereafter De considered unless presented within thirty days after the payment Is claimed to have been made, as the receipt of the paper with the date to which the subscription ts paid plainly printed thereon is prfma facie evi dence of its acceptance as correct.
Connecticut western news., 1890-12-03
Want Parnell to Retire,

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. l. A resolution was adopted by the Parnell branch of the Irish National league Sunday calling upon MT. Parnell to retire from the leadership of the Irish party and the secretary was directed to telegraph the resolution to Messrs. Dillon and O'Brien, who are in Chicago, and to the Irish leaders in London. This branch is one of the oldest in the country and has been regarded as one of the most important.
Connecticut western news., 1890-12-03
LADIES NEARLY DROWNED.
NARROW ESCAPE FROM TWO FATALITIES
 AT TORRINGTCN.

NARROW ESCAPE FROM TWO FATALITIES
 AT TORRNGTCN.
 Wednesday evening, Nov 26, as Mrs James Brennan and the daughter of Mrs John Dwyer were driving at the East Branch, in some way they backed the horse of into the Electric Light pond near Ed Burns. The water was eight feet deep at that point, and their screams brought David Hogan to the rescue. He jumped in and quickly got out the girl. Then learning there was another woman in the pond, Hogan jumped braveiy in .again and caught hold of Mn Brennan. Both had only their heads out of water, and the fright ened and almost unconscious woman chung with the strength of despair to the wagon wheel. William Hogan came to the help of his brother. and the two formed a line to the shore by taking hold of hands, and saved Mrs Brennan.
 The horse, released of his load, swan with the buggy over Q hundred feet, when some men helped him out.-Tor- rington Register.
Connecticut western news., 1890-12-03
ORE HILL.

Miss Annie Russell, teacher in the higher department of our school, spent Thanksgiving at her home in Waterbury
 Fred Gray, who has travelled with Barnum X Bailey's show during the past season, is home again.
 The Salisbury Sunday School Union held it's first evangelistic meeting with Ore Hill Sunday school Tuesday even- ing, Nov 25th. The meeting was 8 success.
Connecticut western news., 1890-12-03
Visiting Her Old Home.

left the city Saturday for Indianapolis to be absent for a week. On her return she will be accompanied by Mrs. Mckee and the children, and Miss Florence Miller Mrs. Mckee will remain at the executive mansion most of the winter with her parents
Connecticut western news., 1890-12-03
Legal Notices.

nISTRICT OF Cornwall, ss. Probate A Court, November 18th, 1890. Estate of
 Almira Bishop, late of Cornwall, in said District, deceased.
 The court of probate for the district of Cornwall hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof, for the creditors of said estate to exhibit their claims for settle ment. Those who neglect to present their accounts, properly attested, within said time, will be debarred recovery. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to.
 VICTORY ~ REERS Adn;n;a+ro+or
Connecticut western news., 1890-12-03
VICTORY c. BEERS, Administrator.

nISTR1CT of Cornwall. ss. Probate Court N November 28th., 1890.
 Estate of Nancy s. Marsh, late of Cornwall, in said District, deceased.
 The Court of Probate for the District of Cornwall hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof, for the credl- tors of said estate to exhibit their claims for settlement. Those who neglect to present their accounts, properly attested, within said time, will be debarred recovery. All per- sons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to
 GEO. 0. HARRISON, Executor.
Connecticut western news., 1890-12-03
Eaws Respecting Newspapers,

EaWs Respecting Newspapers, Printed for the benefit of those who think that ordering . paper stopped absolves them from paying up arrearages:-
 "If subscribers refuse or neglect to take their paper from the poet-ofice to which they are di- Dected they are held responsible until they have settled their bills and ordered their papers discon tinued.
 "Subscribers who do not give express notice to the contrary considered as wishing to continue their subscriptions.
 "If subscribers order the discontinuance oftheir paper the pu blishers may continue to send them autil all arrears maid.
Connecticut western news., 1890-12-03
ChriSt1QaSG00ds
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Each and every department is filled with high grade of useful novelti es. Our PICTURE stock is much improved; some elegant thing $ in that line at low prices.
Connecticut western news., 1890-12-03
HALL, | IoRNBEck
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For the next 90 days. commencing Dec list,
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Connecticut western news., 1890-12-03

Our Regular Stock has all been purcha sed without the Mckinley du ties, and we have not advance a anything yet. Now, take advantage of this and save m oney by buying your goods of us.
 All those who went on the last excursion to Bridgeport know how IT .uch goods have advanced. and those few who bought there know they had to pay it; we filled lots of memoranda that came back without an ite m checked on it, at old prices.
 Thanking you for past favors,
 we remain, yours truly,
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1890-08-16

FIRE could not have invaded a
building in the country where more
losses of various kinds would have re-
suited than from the burning of the
upper floors of the Western Union
building in New York. AS it was
a nominally hre-proof structure, papers
ard books were stored there that
money could not replace, and there
was, besides, a great amount Of costly
fittings required for the business Of the
Western Union Company and the Asso-
ciated Press. Their destruction Illus
trates anew the practical impossibility
of securing inGammable material from
dangers Of fire by the construction of a
casing that will not burn. A furnace
Is an ideal fre-proof structure and that
is whats Sre-proof building becomes
when flames break out In its furniture,
books and papers. Fire-proof or slow
burning construction is, nevertheless,
desirable, because it helps to stay the
spread of flames, but it should not give
rise to false sense of security. The
same precautions against fire are re-
quired in building Of this kind as in
the aimsiest structure Of wood.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1890-08-16

IT SEEMED to sympathetic readers on
this side of the water that if Stanley
could have only been allowed to drive
away with his bride after the wedding
ceremonies at the Abbey, and be no
more seen by the wedding guests, such
arrangements would have been more
thoughtful of the great travellers very
delicate condition and weakness after
his acute attack Of Illness. Notwith-
standing the fact that he Was still
Ill and extremely weak, he was rep
resented as helping to receive the
throngs Of titled anu other guests upon
the lawn, and as resting upon his stick
while surveying the wedding presents.
Conventionalities, in that land Of for
malities, had to be observed, even if the
bridegroom should faint under the
routine, so that it is no wonder that the
festivities and the guests and the gifts
all contributed to make the hoped-for
speedy conyalescence OF the bridegroom
much longer delayed. A little common
sense would have spirited away the
bridal pair from the moment the sigma
lures had been affixed, and left tho
guests to enjoy the garden party and
ths gifts, with the easy explanation
that an invalid could not be part Of the
laerifcisl show,
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1890-08-16

A COMPANY has been organized IN
Pennsylvania for the construction of
steel railroad passenger coaches which
Will neither break. nor 60 into splinters
in cases Of collision or other accident.
The steal car is not an entirely new
device; but the companies did not like
it-certainly have hot taken to it-and
Wonld not have it, for that reason, yet
there is good cause to believe that the
steel car IS as likely to be the passenger
coach Of the future as the ssteel ship is
.fe assured fayorite Of the present. In
it lies apparently the element Of safety
to the most attsinable degree. 1t may
be bent, indented or crushed. even in q
collision, but il SO built as to exclude
the use of wood In material measure,
it cannot be smashed and reduced to a
mass Of tinder or death-deahng timbers
and 1spllnters. The question of practical
lightness should not he an unanswera-
ble one In the construction sf steel pas
seDger coaches, as they conld certainly
be strongly built withous.being made
much heavier than the present palace
and sleeping cars. -
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1890-08-16
When Public and Private Rights
Clash.

How general and dominant IS the de-
sire to encroach upon the public streets
is hardly realized by many citizen un
t !, having bought a vacant lot, he is
about to build. Conscious then of lin
itation by his nelghbor's bounds on
either side, he casts yearning eye upon
the fine open space in front, belonging
to no one in particular, but only to the
public. His sense of public right sud-
denly sinks beneath swelling appreci-
alton of the convenience of subjecting
the highway to his own particular use.
None of it must escape him. His sur
veyor must lay down lines that shall
make certain that the street takes moth
ing from him, even at the risk Of his
taking a little from the street. Laws
and ordinances are searched, strained,
and sometimes snapped, in his effort to
lengthen his line street-Ward. His zeal
to wrest from the pubic place yard
room for his building material becomes
keen; and he forgets Indignation at last
years passages through muddy cutters
or over slippery stagings, necessary 10
avoid the distractions or trenches Of
the neighbor who was then building.
The traveller and the house builder look
upon the public street from points Of
view distinctly diverse, If not adverse.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1890-08-16
A Prescription for Longevity.

One of my prescriptions for longevity
may startle you somewhat. It Is this:
Become the subject Of mortal disease.
Let half dozen doctors Shump you and
knead you and testyou in every posi-
bic way, and render their verdict that
you have an internal complaint; they
don't know exactly what it is, but it
will certainly kill you by and by. Then
bid farewell to the world and shut your
self up for an invalid. If you are three
score years old when you begin this
mode of life, you may very probably
last twenty years. and there you are =
an octogenarian. In the meantime
your friends outside have been drop
ping off, one after another, until you
find yourself almost alone, nursing your
mortal complaint as If it were your
baby. hugging 1t and kept alive by it
If to exist is to live. Who has not seen
cases like thls-a man or woman shut
Giux ultuSCll VI uS1SCIl up3 SloAlCo ny d
doctor or succession of doctors 7 re-
member that once, in my earlier exper-
ience, was the twenty-seventh physi-
clan who had been consnlted), always
taking medicine; until everybody was
reminded of that impatient speech Of
relative of one Of these invalid vampires
who live on the blood of tired out at
tendants,' 81 do wish she would get we'll
or something!" Persons who are
shut up in that way, confined to their
chamber, sometimes to their beds, have
a very small amount of vital expendi-
ture and wear out very little Of their
living substance. They are like lamps
with half their wicks picked down, and
will continue to burn when other lamps
have used up all their oil. An insur-
ance Office might make money by taking
no risks except on lives Of persons suf-
fering from mortal disease.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1890-08-16
THE INNER LIFE.

We know there Is life within the life.
OF each who, toiling, threads the conquered
Ever iierrcer strife be hind the strife
That each Is seen to wage from day to day.
We 6nd ourselves contending with world
In which ambition rules and PRIDE noios
sway;
We drink and SCOT. like others, are possessed
With zeal to grasp the baubles as we may.
So We are Judged to be alike as base
AS he who sells for pOttage all he hath
Who yields not only love and Joy and truth,
But yields for this his sours Immortal worth.
Be thou serene before the heartless Judge,
Brave heart that hath with unseen Valor
Strive not to hold against the world grudge,
And sell the sunshine OF thy Life Tor naught.
The world can never know thee as thou art, :.
Much less with truth can judge thee as 1t
Butif thou hast with courage done thy part,
For thee there's nothing further to be sought
IT'S well for US to toll and strive to win
All that our health and comfort may require
But let the angel still within Us reign,
That he may aid the world to something
higher.
Then let the inner life be full and free
Let mind rule with the scepter OF Its might,
Let heart and soui with aspiration turn
Toward all that's great in nature, grand ID
thought.
Then be the world In judgment true or false,
The heart, secure in Consciousness OF worth,
Can find within Its battlenents Of truth
The greatest pleasure possible to earth.
PhTenoIogtca! Journal.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1890-08-16
Queen Vlctoria's First Trouble.

One of the earliest troub' 'es-perhaps
the first crump'ed rose leaf in thequeen's
royal couch-was the proposed dismis-
sal of her bed-chamber ladies on the fall
of the Melbourne ministry. Sir Robert
Peel and the Duke Of Wellington tried
to persuade Q her majesty that her ladies
were on the same level as her lords, but
the queen would have none Of it. and
wrote the famous letter to Lord Mel
bourne, in which she said: ''They want
ed to deprive me of my ladies, and I
suppose they would deprive me next Of
my dressers and house maids;they wish
ed to treat me ike a girl, but will show
them that I am Queen Of England. !"
The Elizabethan ring about these words
has echoed down the years until to-day,
and her majesty has never failed to re-
member, and to make others remem-
ber, that above and before all else she
ir "Queen Of England"
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1890-08-16

CONSIDERABLY interest attaches to
the laying Of the cable between Ber-
.muda and Halifax, and its completion
will make new era in the history OF
the island. An American electrician
who has just returned from the Ber
m das points out how much more par
uoxical the absence Of Geographic
communication there is from the fact
that It is an important British naval
and coaling station. with one Of the
largest floating dry docks in the world,
and large military garrison, and that
the prosperity of the island is mainly
dependent on its export Of vegetables,
which brings in revenue OF over $780,
90. The people have become alive to
the necessity Of knowing what is going
on IN the world around them; they are
putting up better buildings, dredging
the harbor channels so as to admit the
largest craft, building docks and
wharves, and are now placing them
selves in position to reap the full
advantage of daily prices current. This
evidently is not the end, for it is
rumored that plans for an. electric road
are already under consideration.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1890-08-16
AN ORDEAL IN cEYLoN.
A Custom: Which Does Not Always
Argue for 5GuHtIessness.

Recentlythe district Judge at Kalu.
tara, in Ce9lon, had before him three
persons, including a village head msn,
charged w;th causing grieyous hurt to
four others BY requiring them to plunge
their right hands into caldron Of boil.
ing oil. Tha medical evidence descr b
ed the hands as beingin ''a sodden, sup
puratlng esaditlon, )" The fingers being
in some cases deformed. In all cases
the injured persons were unable to fol-
low their ordinary =ayocatIons for about
a month.
The facts OF the case, as stated in the
Judgment. were these: A woman in the
village had some plumbago and rice
stolen fromlner; a head.man made In
quiry, land falling TO obtain a.clew tothe
theft, annoancedthat it would be nec-
essary on the third day to hold an ordeal
by burning Oil. This appears to be a
not uncommon custom in remote parts
Of the country, and the formalities are
as follows: Some I'll from newly-gath-
cred king cocoanuts IS manufactured by
one of the friends Of the complainant;
this is poured into a caldron and heated
to boiling point. Each Of the suspected
parties is supposed to dip his hand into
the vessel cf boiling oil, and Is at liberty
n snrinxlasas much much of tbe hot oil az he
hrinos m wifi, Ia finoa,rs ~, the nerson
- ~ oar,n n,..nant = -, ,t,nd. e1ose Of
hand Anssyclano.tion ~ main ON the
oart Of the s,,:s1nected person is construed
into an ad,aission Of oniIt Ifno
sncb exclamation is made tbe innocence
op the marty Is snn,o,aa to ba estab.
,;shod .
~ 81, -,.o,a1t 400 tho o,;aonoo 90.
'ne e. ss''e rug e
tabllshed tnat the pressure Oh tae az
cused was not merely moral; they were
forced to dip their hands into the burn