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Connecticut western news., 1891-10-29
SPANKING FOR HYDRoPHoeIA.
Novel Treatment for the Disease Triet
 with Gratifying Success.

Novel Treatment for the Disease Tried
 with Gratifying Success.
 Spanking the hydrophobia out of 8 boy with a wooden splint is not exactly in accord with established usage and traditions, but the experiment is. never theless, meeting with gratifying success at the Presbyterian hospital The sub iect of this novel and not entirely pain less cure is seventeen-year Hugo Eitel. the son of Emil Eitel, a saloon keeper at One Hundred and Tenth street and Fifth avenue. Young Eitel is weak minded and suffers from heart disease
 In August he visited friends in As toria, L. l., and while there was fright ened by a large black dog, which jumped over a fence and bit him on the hand and leg. Some of the neigh bors asked him if he was not afraid of getting hydrophobia, and this sugges- ton preyed on his mind until he began to imagine that he was victim of the dread disease and parked and frothed at the mouth. In this condition he was admitted to the hospital, and his symptoms were so strikingly like those of hydrophobia that the house surgeon, Dr. Frank Lemoyne Hupp, was for a time puzzled by the case and undecided whether or not Hugo had the real dis ease. The action of his heart was ac- tolerated, he suffered from frequent and violent convulsions, he parked like dog and frothed at the mouth.
 He was so violent that it was neces- sary to strap him to the bed But he manifested no abhorrence for water, and this circumstance alone led to the conclusion on the part of Dr. Hopp that the lad was shamming hydro phobia under the influence of great fear. Soothing medicine was admins tered, and Hugo was persuaded that he was all right. Gradually his convul He was discharged as cured.
 Sunday night, after preparing for bed at home, Hugo cried out to his mother that he was afraid of dog Immedi- ately he got down on his hands and knees and began to bark. MT. Eitel was called and went to the Presby- terian hospital post haste and related the reappearance of the symptoms Dr. Hupp agreed to take the boy once more under treatment, and he was taken to the hospital that night in the ambu lance.
 We'll try spanking that boy" said the doctor. When Hugo reached the hospital he was violent, and was strapped to his couch. Then, accord ing to story told to a reporter Mon day night at the hospital, the boy was soundly spanked with a splint such as is used in bandaging broken limbs.
 The effect of the spanking was won derful Hugo stopped barking in short order. After the memory of the spank ing had died away he tried to bark once more, but second spanking drove out the last vestige of hydropho bia, and Hugo was the following day able to sit up and laugh with the nurses over his surprising delusion. He said he never felt better Thurs day Hugo went home, and his father has been ordered by the doctors to spank him, and spank him hard, every time he tries to bark New York Times. -
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-29
STATE NE WS.

The New Haven Poultry association has decided not to hold any exhibition the coming winter, as the last was not a success financially. Many fanciers in this city will make exhibits at the ex- hibition to be given by the Connecti- cut State Poultry association at Hart ford, which will open January Is, at Foot Guard hall, and continue week. New Haven Register.
 Foster s. Bassett of the Bridgeport Standard local staff, was struck by 8 train and seriously injured ct Bridge. port Thursday afternoon, He was talk en to his home in New Haven and his condition is thought to be very preac- riOus. ~ A locomotive on the Ridgefeld branch of the Housstonic railroad jumped the track last night near Branchville depot, tore up the rails, did damage to several freight cars aod delayed traffic about two hours. No one was hurt although considerable loss to railroad property was incurred.
 Robert 0. Mallette, for several years .apnnected with the Newtown Bee, has taken charge of the Southport Chroni- cle as its editor.
 Ex-Mayor Munson Hswley of Bridge port, died Thursday night aged SS years. He was president of the Bridge pot National Bank, position he had scceptably filled for the past 20 years.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-29
King and Tala1ra nhe er.

A.sudden favorable turn of fortune does not always alienate- the lucky in- dividual from his habitual occupations. This more or less wise saw is applicable to the cause of the present king o1 Segon, who was put on the throne of his black kingdom by Colonel Archin- ard, when his royal predecessor, Anna dou, took to flight for his safety.
 Mademba, the present monarch, is a native of the country over which he at present rules, but was formerly con- troller of telegraphs at Senegal Be fore accepting his regal state he made it condition that his name should continue to be inscribed on the list ot telegraph servitors, and that his situa- tion of king should be considered as subservient to that of his original en- ployment.
 Mademba must have learned, either by intuition or from acute observation, that the lot of monarch is less certain in these days than the position of an officer in the service of the "Postes ct Telegraphes, and so preferred to keep in reserve what might one day prove to be a happy issue out of all his afflic- tions.
 He has, no doubt, constantly one eye on his throne and the other one of memory on the office of his former tele- graphic exploits. Should the future bring about for Mademba that change which is in the modern order of things, | he may return to the tick tick of his former days, with the right to add to his title of preference that of "ex-king of Segon."
 Politeness in telegraph offices, al- though once seriously complained of by M. Guy de Maupassant, is generally the rule, even with the ordinary employees; but should Mademba of Segon ever return to his Senegalian bureau, his clients may expect to be treated in right royal fashion by man who never lost sight of business, even when pro- noted to the honors of an African throne. Messenger.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-29
A.QUEER FREAK.

Lightning wreeks Q Chnrch but Car.
 ries . Mirror Down Stairs Unbroken.
 The Congregational church at War ren, Conn.,, which for than half cen- tury has been an interesting landmark, was stfuck by lightning Oct 2Oth, re- ceiving such damage ss to making tho repairing of it doubtful The spire and tower above the bell clock was destroyed. The bell, how ever, remains uninjured. The Warren correspondent of the Waterbury Ameri- can gives the following version of the occurrance: ....
 Tuesday afternoon lightning struck the Congregational church, lesv- ing it perfect wreck. The bolt enter ed the church over the organ in the gal lery, tearing the organ to pieces, strip ping up boards and splintering timbers, tearing of blinds and breaking nearly every one of the glasses in the windows. The looking glass that was hanging on the organ in the gallery was found in the porch sitting up on it's side unbroken. It is Q mystery how it could have got ten there as there was no hole for 1t to come down through. The organ cost 3l2OO. A small organ near the desk in the body of the church was not hurt.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-29
HERE AND THERE.

Nine ex-Goyernors of lows are living.
 Only one nan in 2O3 is over six feet in height.
 The treasury of the United States is guarded by TO veteran soldiers.
 A Georgia physician who was asked as to the effect of cigarette smoking re- piled that he could not give an opinion as to the effect on the brain, as he had never seen anyone with brains smoke 8 cigarette.
 ''I don't want any castor oil, !" said the sick little Boston boy. Why, Horace" sad his mother. "don't you know that castor oil Is made from beans?" The boy took the dose at once.
 The press has made presidents, killed poets, furnished bustles for beauties and punished genius with criticism. It bas curtailed the power of kings, graced the pantry shelves and busted. It has con- verted bankers into paupers and made lawyers ont of college presidents. It has educated the homeless and robbed the philosopher of his reason. It smiles and cries and dies, but it can't be run to suit every body and the man Is 8 fool who tries it.-Port Huron. Mich, Fri bune.
 The woman who entrusts family se- crets to her servant does not look into the future as she should do. It Is best for the mistress and best for the maid that such things should not be.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-29
This is Worth Knowing.

A writer, who claims to know what he is talking about, says that salt is the best and cheapest preservstive that can be found for posts. This he bases upon his own experience ss follows- Thirty four years ago we set four oak hitchiug posts three and half feet deep in the earth, having first bored an inch hole in the same about three inches above and another of like size about foxr inches below the earth's surface. Jne then stopped with dry oak plug The posts remain to-day sound and strong. Had the salt yaot been used the posts would have decayed years ago. Salt ey tsinly, has very many useful quail tiesA
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-29
ODDS AND ENDS.

Two deaf mute sisters in Texas edit 6 paper.
 The cost of taking the census in Ed inburgh was over $5, ,O0O.
 Pieces of icorice laid around where ants run is recommended.
 Ladies in Lexington, Ky., have or. ganized an antislang society.
 If we can make life happy, we may at all events make it interesting.
 No coward can get to heaven. The tree of life is for "him that over cometh."
 Six million dollars is named as the value of the estates Myra Clark Gaines won after her years of litigation.
 The public debt of Philadelphia, which is $56, GOO, ,0oO, is larger, pc, capita, than the public debt of New York.
 A kiss is about the only thing you can steal and at the same time make the owner richer and happier than she was before.
 It is reported that vein of coal three miles wide and fifty feet thick has been discovered in the Flathead conn- try in Montana.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-29
TIMELY ANNIVERSARIES.
Current Selections from HistO-
 ry's Broad Page.
October 2S.

October 2S. 02 B. C.-Demosthenes, the great Athenian orator and patriot, killed himself by poison in the temple of Neptune, on the island of Kalaurea-
 l164-King Stephen of England died, after 8 troubled reign of nineteen years. AOO-Geonrey Chaucer, poet, died. k16-Battle of Agincourt; Henry of Eng land with 5000 men defeated the French with 5000, the latter losing 10000 men to the formers only about 7OO-all due to the superiority of the English archers. l764-William Hogarth, the famous painter and engraver, died.
 l760LGeorge II of England died. 1661-Eirst through message on the Atlantic and Pacific telegraph, Judge Stephen Field to Abraham Lincoln; it was followed i'm mediately by announcement of the death of Colonel Edward Baker, whereupon the celebration in San Francisco was stopped and the city dressed in mourning. le71-Field Marshal Ludwig Benedik. com- mander of the Austrian army at Sadowa. died at Gratz, in Styria
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-29
Tabby as 8 Tramp.

Some weeks ago family removed from Piedmont to Bismarck. Among other members of the family was the household cat. Tabby did not like the change, and for several days after her arrival at Bismarck wandered around aimlessly, moving pitifully at the cars as they passed. One day last week the boys at the depot noticed Tabby jumping on the trucks of the southbound freight train. The con ductor and brakemen were told of their extra passenger and resolved to watch her. At Hogan Tabby was still on the trucks; at Annapolis she was routed by the boys, but climbed ot, again before the train started; at Gad's Hill she was fired" and chased into the brush, but again she made connec tions, and when the train reached Pied mont she left her seat with the air of q conqueror and trotted up town, Iron .on (Mo.) Truth.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-29
SUDDEN DEATHS.
County Coroner Jacob B. Harden. burE's Report as Submitted to Super- for Court Clerk ID. c. Kilbourn.

County Coroner Jacob B. Harden burg's Report as Submitted to Super- for Court Clerk D. c. Kilbourn.
 [Litchfeld Enquirer.l
 The following is list of the sudden deaths in Litchfield County from April l, to October l, 1891, as reported by County Coroner Jacob B. Hardenburg to Superior Court Clerk Dwight O. Kilbourn:
 April 21, Sarah E. Landon, Litch- field, heart disease, 37 years of age.
 April 25, Major A. Nickerson, Canaan, natural causes, AT years of age.
 May II, Sarah A. Nichols, Warren, spople1y, 30 years of age.
 May Il, Alexander MacLeman, Salis- bury, cerebral hemorrhage, 45 years of age.
 May 19, Lucius E. Bissell, winches- ter, railroad accident, 72 years of age.
 May 20, Reuben Porter, Salisbury, railroad accident, 26 years of age.
 May 27, Freddie Msyne, Kent, rail road accident, 10 years of age.
 May 27. William Miller. Kent, rail road accident, 30 years of age.
 June 5, Jennette w. Hine, New Mil ford, suicide by hanging, AT years of age.
 June l2, Frederick l.. Crockett, New Milford, drowned, 19 years of age.
 June 13, Edwin R. Hulburt, Norfolk, killed by bull, 65 years of age.
 June 24, child of A. Gilbert, Wood bury, natural causes, seven days of age. June 24. Daniel M. Gillette, Roxbury, suicide, 79 years of age.
 June 25, Joseph Booth, Roxbury, &C., cident, p years of age.
 July 13, Etta V. Smith, Winchester, railroad accident. 30 years of age
 July 26, Frank Vosburg, Salisbury, drowned, IT years of age.
 August l2, Julia Ann Shelton, Beth- lehem, natural causes, 87 yeara of age August 27, John Keigan, Torrington, drowned. 45 years of age.
 September 4, Ellen Hughes, Thomas ton, drowned, 10 years of age.
 September 4, Katharine Hughes, Thomaston, drowned, 3 years of age.
 September $, Michael R. Mcconnell, Plymouth, railroad accident, 23 years of age.
 September ', Julia Flynn, Thomas ton, railroad accident, 60 years of age.
 September II. John w. Burton, Woodbury, natural causes, 53 years of sge..
 September 16, John Cullen, New Mil ford. railroad accident, 30 years of age September 22, Frank Carpenter, Ca naan, railroad accident. Al years of age.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-29
October 2S.

02-Maxentius, Roman emperor, drowned tr the Tiber. which made way for Constantine to become emperor.
 o0-Alfred the Great. Saxon king of England. died. L0-Desiderius Erasmus, eminent scholar anc very conservative reformer, died HO4-John Locke, philosopher, died. H76-Battle of White Plains; the Americana retreated with loss of 18O, the British loss being 229, chiefly wounded. le2-Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, orator. author and actress. born In Philadelphia. l062-Minor battles at Cross Follows, Ark. Clarkson, Mo-, and Williamsburg, Ky. lee6-Bartholdi statue unveiled in New York harbor.
 lso0-Popular uprising in Tfcino and Freyburg. Switzerland: no permanent changes.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-29
The American Hog.

The New Milford Gazette published the folloving letter which it received from Ro1bury, Conn.,, contributor:
 We read in the papers awhile ago that the .American Hog" was now re- ceived in Germany. Apropos of hogs: We visited the Danbury fair recently and saw there, on exhibition some ex- tra fine specimens. Instead of being confined in pens, they were allowed to sport about on the grand stand, and when the races became exciting, the an- imals rose on their hind legs and stood up, and when . lady punched one in the ribs with an um brella and reminded him that the ladies would like to see something of the races, the creature grunted out, "You have the same privi- lege of standing up." Now we had just paid twenty-five cents, ,as we sup posed for the privilege of sitting down. There were other specimens, greedily munching tobacco and slobbering the the juics over these in front of them, while others still, no doubt foreseeing their ultimate fate. were intent upon prematurely smoking and preparing themselves for bacon. If Germany wants the American Hog," why not ship her some of these prize specimsnsi
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-29
THE FIRST STEP.

Perhaps you are run down, can't eat, can't sleep, can't think, can't do any thing to your satisfaction, and you won der what ails you. You should heed the warning, you are taking the first step into nervous prostration. You need 8 nerve tonic and in Electric Bitters you will find the exact remedy for re- storing your nervous system to it's nor nal, healthy condition. Surprising re- suits follow the use of this great nerve tonic and alternative. Your appetite re- turns, good digestion is restored, and the liver and kidneys resume healthy action. Try bottle. Price 50 cents at w. H. Camps drug store.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-29
A LITTLE GIRLS EXPERIENCE IN
 A LIGHTHOUSE

MT and Mrs Loren Prescott are keep CTS of the Gov. Lighthouse at Sand Beach, Mich. and are blessed with 8 daughter, four years old. Last April she was taken down with measles, followed with dreadful cough and turning into 8 fever. Doctors at home and at Detroit treated her, but in vain, she grew worse rapidly, until she was 8 mere handful of bones". Then she tried Dr. Kings New Discovery and after the use of two and half bottles, was completely cured. They say Dr. Kings New Discovery is worth it's weight in gold, yet you may get trial bottle free at W. H. Camps drug store.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-29
October 27.

a B. C.-Marcus Junius Brutus, one of tho assassins of Julius Caesar, after being de- feated at Philippi, killed himself. lH3-Michael Servetus burned at Geneva for denying the Trinity. iT28tCaptain James Cook born at Marton. Yorkshire: killed at Sandwich islands. Feb. 1A 1779.
 I6N-Whitelaw Reid, editor and minister to France, born near Xenia, O. ls5S-Mme. Ida Pfeiffer. celebrated traveller. died
 Is61-Cavalry battle at Spring Hill, Mo. 1s6l-Daring exploit of Lieutenant Cushing. planting . torpedo which destroyed tho Confederate ram Albemarle in the Roanoke. lS68-Charles Thomas Longley, archbishop Of Canterbury, died leee-The Duke of Sparta, crown prince of Greece, married at Athens to tho Princess Sophie of Germany; earthquakes in Italy and Turkey
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-29

lAs1John PalaeoloHus, the last Greek emper- or bsfore the coming in of tho Turks, died: his successor, Constantine XIII, was slain in tho capture of Constantinople. leo6-Jobn Bradshaw, president of the court which condemned Charles 1. died; born 1890
 E2-Victor Amadeus. first king of Sardinia, died. ls40-RichArd Heber Newton, D. D., radical preacher, born in Philadelphia le6l-Nevada formally admitted into the ' nion with the least population of any new state; Plymouth. N. O., captured by 8 Federal squadron under Commodore Macomb. IS72-John Baldwin Blackstone, famous Eng nsh comedian, died; born 1902. ls1o-Joseph Hooker, general. died in Garden City, N. Y.; born 1874 leooJohann N. Nussbaum, famous surgeon and oculist, died in Munich.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-29
Oleomargarine Offenders.

More than thirty boarding houses and restaurants in New Haven have been re- gently visited by Dairy Commissioner Winslow and his assistant, MT Eaton, in the course of their investigations to detect violations of the oleomargerlne law. Other places in that city are to be visited. Nearly all the places inspected have been violating the law in some of it's provisions. A batch of prosecutions is to follow and Mir Winsow has ex- pressed his intention to enforce the pen alties for neglect to comply with the statute in the matter of public notice of sale or use of oleomargarine on the premises s-Connecticut Farmer.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-29

"AA0h WOAO aOCAOyO ONA Oy AhO OA :" ON- nesday evening of last week. will be rebuilt immediately and in future will be run on what is known as union cloth.
 The North Canaan Water Go. is having another picnic with the rock on Prospect ave ue;a, now 8 channel is be- ing blasted out in order to lower the water pipes leading to s. 0. Beckley's house.
 --D.B McElwee has purchased thou sands of barrels of apples this fall. He has sixteen gangs of men packing in diff ferent parts of the country. He has shipped great many barrels to Flu rope.-Millerton Telegram.
 Mrs David B. Soule died at her home in New Milford, October IS, of consumption. She had been very ill for the past two months. Rev T. J. Lee of Easton. Pa, her former pastor in his address referred to her calm, chris tian, home life, and her resignation under her afflction. The floral tributes were beautiful ----.-...-.-. The Housatonic R. R. Go. has just purchased three of the most powerful locomotives now built, to move their enormous freight and passenger traffic. Either one of these giant machines is guaranteed to pull 10 loaded Pullman cars up any grade on the Hous atomic sys- tenn without abatement of speed.-Dsn- bury News.
 We like to see . man run down his homo paper as not worth taking, and now and then beg the editor for favor in the editorial columns. We like to see man run down his home paper and then try to get a share of the trade which a newspaper brings to town. We like to see this; it looks economical, thrifty, progressive and cheeky. Co., wanda Herald.
 Seldom is funeral SO largely at tended in this town as was the funeral of the late Joel K. Crofut at Canaan Valley on Wednesday of last week. Beside neighbors and townsmen, many came from Southfeld, New Marlboro, North Norfolk and vicinity. MT Crofut had been prominent in the town affairs of North Canaan, having held positions of.honor and trust, including that of selectman, justice of the peace, and g member of the legislature in 1866 Mrs Hannah Spencer, who died at Housatonic, Mass. Oct Doth, at the age of eighty, was the widow of Thomas H. Spencer. She was one of fourteen chil- | dren-seven sons and seven daughters, | only two of whom are now living, viz Darius B. Smith of Pine Meadow, Ct and Nehemiah Smith of Norwich, Conn She was 8 daughter of the late Asa Smith. One of her brothers, the late John c. Smith. was president of the Greenwoods Go. at New Hartford. One of her nephews, Robert R. Smith, has for many years been agent of the Green woods Go.
 -Gunpowder and shot are having 8 great sale in our stores at present and many are the hunters who go out hunt | ing for birds and return with empty game-bags but we have few sportsmen here and in the vicinity who are doing pretty we'll, but Clem Kegler IS the most universally successfull Nimrod in the village. Clem goes every day and re- turns with 8 goOdly number of birds.
 Will Green of Clayton is doing some great shooting and We heard he killed
 oS the other day. Wild ducks were shot few weeks ago but woodcock and
 partridge ara the principal game now
 though they arc far from being plenty
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-29
Make Hay While the Sun Shines.

We carry complete stock of all re- pairs for the ADRIANCE BUCKEYE MOVING MACHINE and can furnish repairs for any other machine at very short notice. We also have large as- sortment l, tools for the field, such .As Forks, R. es, Scythes and Snaths, Grain Grad .s, etc., at low prices.
 We have few kegs left of those Nails which weu, tn ."gh the flood of last spring whi' are just as good for gen. eral purposes. and which we will sell at VERY LOW PRICE to close them out
 Of Lawn Mowers we have few lsft. and. rather than carry them over, win sell them at price that will make it an object to buy now. @ .s..a
 For the sporting season we have . fine assortment of Guns, Rifles, Revol- vers, Loading Tools, Ammunition, etc.
 A full stock of Barbed Wire, Building Materials, Lime, Cement, Drain Tile, Iron and Steel. ...-..
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-29
0ctnhor H1.

Nov. being All Saints Day, the preceding evening Is All 'Hallow eve. About 25 B. o., Marcus Agrippa built temple for "All the Gods" and in the Seventh century 1t was puri- aed and dedicated to "An the Saints"