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ed of William Finnerty of Palmer and Miss c. Louisa Pagan of Monson, and P. c. Bryant of Virginia and Miss Mary Dunn of Monson. l Rev. O. B. Sumner, of Pomona, Gal, former pastor of the Monson Congre- gational church, will occupy the pulpit in that church Sunday l ELLINGTON.
 Preaching next Sunday at the usual hours in the Advent chapel by Elder o. H. Edwards.
 Crystal Lake Correspondence.)
 Mrs. Wm. Murray, having spent near 1y month with her friends, MT. and Mrs Dwight Eaton, in South Coventry, is home again. MT. Eaton, who has been prostrated by shock for long time, is slowly improving.
 The writer visited Edwin Baker in Vernon last Sunday, accompanying MT B's. father by invitation. Edwin is man. aging large farm, and his growing crops are looking finely. l A farmer living between Crystal Lake and Ellington Street, among other images in his corn-field, put up one of woman And now his dog spends nearly all tht time lying down beside it, seeming te think he must guard it.
 In anticipation of a great gathering at his grove on decoration day, MT. Bowler is making ample preparation. Among other attractions, he has engaged steam CT for the occasion, which is already o1 1 the lake.
 l The body of John Moore, who died about two years ago, was buried in tht part of our center cemetery allotted fol the poor Git not being known at the time that he had been soldier). It was re moved on Monday to another section O the cemetery.
 We are pleased to learn that Rev MT. Edwards is expecting to preach here again next Sunday.
 Should churches or ministers in this vicinity occasionally need pulpit supply they may both confer and receive favo by addressing the writer, Box 4, Crysta Lake.
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Thomas Kench, proprietor of the Notch House, Bolton, was placed under $2OO bonds on Monday to appear June 9, to answer the charge of selling liquor without license. Sheriff Kibbe of FL lington, Deputy Sheriff Shea and Prose cutting Attorney Ray of Norwich raided the hotel Saturday night, seizing quan- tity of liquor. The place has had a bad reputation.
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Congressman Clifton R. Breckinridge of Arkansas will hardly be able to get back again. The primaries in the 2d dis trict have gone against him. His fault was in voting to repeal the silver pur- chase law.
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Eleven men were murdered on Friday at Cripple Creek, in Colorado. They were in the shaft house of the mine, and the striking miners put giant powder under the house and blew it up.
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The age of whales is ascertained by the size and number of lamine of the whalebone, which increase yearly. Ages of 300 and 400 years have been assigned to whales from these indications.
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DO YOU WEAR
 Spectacles or Eye Glasses ?

If 80 call at Lathrop's Drug Store and see if he
 can't it you He is closing out this line of goods
 and you can have them at almost your own | price.
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WELLINGTON.

(Moose Meadow correspondence)
 The ladies' aid society will meet with Mrs. Horton Wilson next week Thursday evening. Everybody invited.
 -"Children's day'' will be observed in the church the 3d Sunday in June
 MT. P. M. Crapo, general fiscal agent of the Connecticut Mutual Company out west, informs the Burlington Hawk-Eye' that in the first three months of the pres ent year-January, February and March were repaid to that company by the farmers of Iowa loans amounting in dollars. .---
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A few more of those and 10c. Boxes of Stationery at The Press office.
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COVENTRY.

South Coventry. A. s. PARKER, Local Editor and Business Man
 ager of Coventry Local Register.
 The family of H. F. Dimock is ex- pected to arrive in town tomorrow for the summer.
 We never saw nicer rose-buds on June andahybrid bushes than this present season.
 School in Dist. 9, Mrs. A. s. Parker, teaches tomorrow. -Saml Hall builds good boats, and has plenty of work in that line. Geo. Grant and Mir. Gaskell were ar rested for drunkenness last week, and brought before justice, who found them guilty, and they were fined respectively $4 and $3 and costs. -Children's day is to be observed by concerts at both the Congregational and Methodist churches. A large audience listened to the mem- orial address by Rev. B. F. Perkins. As is the custom both congregations joined in union service. The Nathan Hale division of the O.. A. R. decorated the soldiers graves in the several cemeteries in North Coventry yesterday forenoon; partook of colla- tion provided by the ladies at the Congre- gational church at noon; in the afternoon visited the Nathan Hale burial ground, after which the G. A. R. and citizens lis- tened to an address by Lawyer King of Willimantic, delivered in the Congrega- tional church. Mrs. Glispin. who broke her arm by falling down stairs last week, is doing we'll.
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ROCKVILLE.

Mrs. John Brown, 76, died suddenly at her residence in Orcutt block Sunday evening. She was sitting in chair and talking to her children apparently as well as she had been for some time, when she instantly expired. Heart disease was the cause. She had been troubled with this disease for some time, but continued to get around. She leaves two daughters, the Misses Brown, who conduct milli- nery store on Market street, and one son, proprietor of the Market street bakery.
 The Eastern Connecticut Cycling club, including the wheel clubs in Norwich, Willimantic and Rockville, have decided to hold series of race meetings this sum- mel, opening with the tournament in Rock vile June 16. The association will run two events, one-mile team race and 8 half-mile handicap. w. A. Howell ot Rockville is the president of the club.
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UNION.

Collector Back will be at the town house June 2d and June 9th, from to p. m., to receive taxes. The rate is 2A per cent
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GAS, ETHER and Local An@sthetics M administered to render operations painless.
 L. F. EATON, DENTIST, Warren's Block.
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LADIES' DRESS CUTTING SCHOOL.

&&1l OpenIng IhurSuay, May l5s I Every lady who joins the school within two weeks will get the The Tailor System at school price, and dU lessons ta'ee. Others who join af- ter two weeks will pay a reasonable price for in- structionS. French Dart a specially. Join early. MRS. G. A. ELMES and Mss M. J. TAYLOR, teach CTS. Hours to g. Rooms, Chamberlin's block, over Kane's restaurant.
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MANSFIELD. StOrrs. fCnrraSnnndanca.N

StOrrs. (Corresponde nce.) The announcements for the coming commencement season are: The baccal- aureate sermon will be preached by Rev. c. A. Dinsmore of Willimantic, on Sun- day, June 10th. at 3.30 p. m., in the col lege chapel; the term examinations held on the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday; Thursday night the gradua- ting class-day exercises; Friday morning. examination in practical agriculture by 8 committee of the Alumni for the prizes upon that subject from the Alumni asso- citation; at 1O.30 the graduating exer- cises to be held in the college chapel and at half past one the address by Hon. N. J. Bachelder of Concord, N. H., the a. warding of the Hicks prizes for excel lence in English composition and excel lence in domestic science work, also the announcement of the Alumni association prizes for excellence in practical agricul- ture and horticulture, after which the di- plomas will be conferred.
 Entrance examinations fer candidates for admission to the college next year will be held in room 50 Capitol building, Hart ford, at 10 o'clock, June 30th.
 Prof. A. B. Peebles preached at Gov entry Sunday in exchange with Rev. Hen- ry Hoisington.
 The Y. P. s. c. E. gave social last evening.
 Prof. Davis spent some time away from the college the last of the week and upon his return Sunday he was accompa- nied by MT. Foster of Willimantic.
 Prof. Phelps was away during the middle of the week attending to expert ments.
 -The memorial exercises were we'll at. tended and much enjoyed by all present. | Gurleyville.
 The unoccupied house and barn neal Gurleyville, owned by Mrs. Lucien Wood worth, of Conantville, were burned to the ground Tuesday the 22d, at o'clock a m: Fire incendiary, and no insurance.
 W. E. Williams started his silk mil on Friday, 25th.
 Charlie Dodge expects to get his house ready to occupy some time in June | Lizzie Nichols is very sick with rheu matic fever.
 Fremont Durham lost valuable COW last week.
 Rev. J. H. Bakers son, Harley, k visiting relatives in Massachusetts.
 Il. L. Simonds of Springfield, Mass. spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs. s. P Chaffee.
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About 2 A. M.
Dressing For 8 Picture.

"You press the button, we do the rest. Life,
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CALL AND HAVE YOUR TEETH O EXAMINED. It will cost you nothing for advice. L. F. EATON, DENTIST, Warren's Block.
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GFftchburg, Mass, Sentinel, May 2S.)
 Sunday was day long to be remem- bered in the Sacred Heart Parish, as it was then that the Rev. Father Labonte, who during the several years that he has been connected with the society, has gained the deepest regard of friends and acquaintances, entered into the active du- ties of priesthood. At the morning ser- vice at 10. 30 o'clock Father Labonte cele- brated his first solemn high mass, assisted by Father Norris and Rev. Father O'Con- nor of North Adams. Father O'Connor delivered an eloquent sermon on the Dig nifty of Priesthood" and at its conclusion Father Labonte conferred his blessing upon the parishioners. Vesper services were held at 6.30 in the evening and Fath- CT Labonte officiated At the close of his days labors Father Labonte was given a short reception in Institvte hall, and the large room was unable to contain all who wished to participate in the happy occa- sion. As Father Labonte, accompanied by Fathers Norris, O'Connor and Grenier entered a chorus of 9 young girls in white sang a charming welcome, after which a short and interesting program was rendered. In the midst of the pro- gram Father Labonte was escorted to the platform by Father Norris and upon his arrival there was greeted by very de. monstrative welcome. Father Norris with a few rem arks presented Father La bonte, as a token of esteem from the par ish, a generous sum of money. Father Labonte was visibly affected as he rose te respond, and his kind and grateful words as he thanked one and all for the interest
 hown for him. came from the heart, an6 fell as benediction upon his listeners.
 Father Labonte will be remembered b, many as former resident of Staffort Springs.
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THO RENT-House of J. Dodds, on u Brown-ave. Inquire of J. s. Clark, near the
 premises.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-07-05

the riders leaning well toward Che
hillside to assist in maintaining an up
right position they reached the bottoN
as part of small avalanche. b
maneuvers of this character we gaine4
ground on the much-fatigued game,
and, though our horses were blown,
we at last overhauled the pair. A mo-
ment later first one and then another
native swung the fatal bolas. The an
imals fell with their legs bound fast,
and the long, exhausting chase ended.
'"The bolas is a peculiar weapon.
Heavy balls, half as large as ones fists,
are fastened one to either end of a
leather thong. Sometimes the bolas
has three balls-two lighter ones at
tached one to either end of short
thong and a heavier ball to one end of
longer thong, the other end of which
Joins the middle of the shorter thong.
When sufficient impetus has been
gained by whirling these balls about
the head they are let go to Irvine about
the legs of Whatever they may have
been properly directed at.
''Guanacos are easily domesticated,
and grow so tame as to become nui-
sances. They persist in following you
about, treading right on your heels,
and nosing in your pockets. Ifrepulsed
they get angry and spit at you. Their
saliva is strongly acid, and if not
washed off will burn the skin. If it
should chance to lodge on scratch ar
in an eye it may cause great irrita&
and soreness. The skins Of the Hos,
make beautiful and soft rugs, but as
they are very small many of them are
required. The Indians dye the under
sides of the skins with dull colors,
which they obtain from certain kinds
of earths."
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IN DREARY PATAGONIA.
A Welsh Utopia on the Banks Of
the Chubut.
Where Hardy Settlers Find Independence
Their Sports and Pastimes-The
Most Unique Colony in
the World.
Especial letter.

By sending special representatives
into foreign countries the Outing Mag
azine is doing much towards the educa-
faon of its readers, Mr.. Frank G. LEM,
who is making trip around the world
on bicycle, is now sending exceeding
~ interesting descriptions of his wheel
ing experiences in China; while j. Perry
Worden, in Touring in Europe on Next
to Nothing is rambling among the
most interesting historical section of
Scotland. Another representative is in
southern climes, and has witnessed a
season of sport in Patagonia, and in
the june number of Outing gives an
excellent description of the lives and
methods of the Welsh colonists who
have settled in that dreary land-Pata-
gonia. These sturdy toilers, prizing
their Independence above everything
else, seem quite content with their
hard-earned subsistence, although eX-
listing under conditions which to our
farmer, accustomed to fruitful, we'll
watered lands, would be intolerable.
In connection with the history of the
colony and its formation he writes as
follows OF the rare sport in which the
Patagonian Welsh boys indulge:
Many years ago there lived a Welsh
divine who dreamed of Welsh Utopia
in foreign land. His dreams so far
materialized that in 1864 $50 immi-
grants left Wales to found colony in
Patagonia. They landed in the Golfo
Nuevo and finally settled on the banks
of Chubut river, which mingles it's
waters with those of the South At
lantic ocean twenty miles below the
forty-third parallel of south latitude.
Here they have multiplied for upwards
OF quarter of a century, and have
been further increased by immigration.
Many of them speak only their ma
tive Welsh. They are so excessively
healthy that, at the period of my visit,
population of eighteen hundred did
not produce enough illness to support
either druggist or physician. Such
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-07-05
SLANDERING NON-ORINKERs.
Foolish and Inconsiderate Things Said
About Advocates of Temperance.

Foolish and Inconsiderate Things Said
About Advocates of Temperance.
L have never asserted anything SO
wrong and so foolish as that it is a sin
to drink wine; nor have | ever been SO
my legitimate warrant, as to pro-
nounce a syllable of condemnation
against those who, in the somewhat
clumsy nomenclature of this contro-
versy, are called moderate drinkers. -
If there are any who adopt such lam
guage | can only say that l have never
once heard it used at any temperance
meeting either of the higher or lower
classes. But, granted that many fool
ish and inconsiderate things are said
upon this subject, I ask whether
there is any controversy which is not
discredited by the bearing and methods
of some of its partisans? And is nc
nonsense talked and are no brutalities
Or vulgarities of abuse resorted to by
those who take the other side?
How often, for instance, have we
been told that total abstainers are poor,
weak. unbalanced creatures. who. be
ing unable to protect themselves from
drunkenness, try by all sorts of non
sense, folly and tyranny to rob their
neighbors of harmless and beneficial
indulgence? Into all these amenities |
refuse to enter. If it is foolish and
wrong to denounce all use of fermented
liquors as a sin, it is no less foolish and
wrong to speak of total abstinence
from them as a Manichean condemna-
ton of "a good creature of God" "A
good creature of God?" l have heard
Sir Wilfred Lawson say. ''Of course it
is! SO is a tiger. But one does not
want a tiger in ones bedroom"
No modest abstainer would claim his
abstinence as virtue, or Enthusiastically
pride himself upon it; but it is at least
an equal absurdity to speak of the use
OF beer and wine as though the self
qualification involved in drinking them
were virtue which entities the mod
crate drinker" to look down upon his
neighbor from an indefinite altitude of
superiority. And surely a sufficient
number of men of pre-eminent good
ness, learning and wisdom, in all ages
and countres-from the days of Pytha-
goraS down to those of John the Bap-
fist, and through all the Christian ages
have been more or less absolute alb
stainers, to prove that the practice can
neither be injurious nor absurd. Con
temporary Review.
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of hare, and half a dozen of each for an
afternoons run is only a fair bag.
Once fox or hare is raised it takes
only few minutes for the dogs to run
him down-but they are lively minutes!
One day the meet was at the farm of
Hugh Hughes, distant about sixteen
miles from the sea. The house was
representative dwelling built of poor,
homemade, half baked brick, held to-
gether nominally by a little mud and
mortar, in reality by virtue of being
laid in the gravity line. The house
contained two rooms, and mother earth
formed the only floor. About twenty
riders collected at the door of this
modest mansion, in front of which half
dozen hungry-lool1ing dogs of no par
ticular breed wandered aimlessly to
and fro. Two or three of the party
possessed delapidated saddles The re-
mainder had but sheepsllins or pieces
OF bagging to interpose between them
selves and their horses backbones.
Stirrups were not in vogue to any ex-
tent; some of the men rode barefOOted,
and the brides were mostly spot-made
with a bit of cord doing service as
reins. Many of the horses showed an
ear split in two. These animals had
been trained by the Pehuelches, tribe
of Patagonian Indians, who were ex-
cellent hunters.
The country over which we hunted
contained no hills, trees or water; no
fences, bitches or walls, but was irregu-
larly cut up by gullies and steep-sided
ravines. The only vegetation was
clumps of thorny bushes and a little
grass. The extremely loose soil was
composed of sand, loan and countless
oyster shells. Its general appearance
certainly sustained the opinion of the
immortal Darwin that this part of the
world has been terra frma for little
more than two thousand years.
1t is interesting to contrast the
gaucho's saddle gear with the slender
outfits of the Welshmen. He first puts
on the horses back two pieces of wood,
about twenty inches long, that fit into
the hOllows by the horses backbone
They are held together by thongs and
bound down by surcingle. Over these
he puts blankets and skins to number
seemingly limited only by his wealth
There may be as many as eight or ten,
and over this mass he passes another
broad surcingle. On top of the whole
he sits, rather than straddles, not alto
gather unlike the manner in which one
sits on camels back. At night his
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-07-05
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
MODERN DRINKING SONG.

Fill high the bowl with Fusel Oil'
With Tannin let your cups be crowned
II Strychnine gives relief to Toll
Let Strychnine's generous juice abound
Let Oil of Vitriol cool your brains
Or animated atoms brew
And fill your arteries, hearts, and veins
With glee-and infusorial glue
Vine That died out in IS
What fool would have it back And how?
The cup that wiA inebriate
And never cheer" they sell us now,
''The conscious water saw it's God
And blushed." What Of it? Don't you feel
Tat water knows the drugger's rod
AiR bushes now-with Cochineali
Ah-h, Fragrant fume OF Creosote!
BeN gchng bowl of PruSsian Blue!
Who buld not soothe his parching throat
wiz your mild offspring Mountain Dew?
stronger than aught that rackcd the frame
Andshook the mighty brain of Burns,
surely ven set our heads afame
Whsne er his festal day returns?
Bring on the Beer-fresh Copperas foamI
Win alum mixed in powder fine,
Tow ,ould my foolish fancy roam
In search of whittier froth than thine?
Ihy indian Berry's Essence spread
through amber wavelets, sparkling clear,
Benmbs dull Care-strikes Feeling dead
Ard narcotics Shame and Fear!
Far down thy bubbling depths, Champagne
Wown'd honor love, and beauty lie
fought tn unequal fight in vain
all we, too, merely drink-and die?
eSweeCAcetate of Lead, Forbid
Fill every drink with pangs-and tell
What tortures could-and always did
Anticipate the stings of hell
Then drink, boys! drink We never can
Drink younger And we never will
Bt men-or aught resembling man
While prisoners have the power to kill!
Amen From Frenzy'S screech of mirth
To maudlin Sorrows driveling flow,
Well rave through scenes unmatched on cart
And not to be surpassed below
The Dawn.
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names as Jones, Hughes, Mathews, Ed
wards, Williams and Evans abound.
and the owners of them are as Welsh as
their people at home. They are poor
but thoroughly independent. The gen.
Grafton born in the country was brought
up on horseback and can vie with the
Patagonian Indian in horsemanship.
Though the country swarms with
ducks, geese and cartridges few of the
Welshmen indulge in shooting, because
many do not own even so much as an old
musket, and the majority of those who
have firearms have not the wherewithal
to purchase ammunition. But hunt
ing they may and do enjoy, and
whoever desires hard riding and
rare sport may find both with
the Patagonian Welsh boys. A meet
may be prearranged or few hunt en-
thusiasts may happen together on a
cloudy afternoon in the harvest season
when they have nothing else to do.
The quarry Is foxes and large species
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and will give strength to every evil
thing which turks in him, and hearten
it to bring seven others worse than it.
self?
Common sense, the instinct of self
preservation, ordinary prudence, and
the sense of the fitness of things, are
suspended. If you yield to this temp
tation, you will lose the power of tax.
ing care of yourself, and of knowing
where you are. Would not a
man be fool who should
try to lie down for comforta BILE
sleep on the waves of mid-ocean, or in
the cradle" which ancient ships car
ried at their masthead? A tipsy ma
will fling himself down in as unsuitable
places. 1t is bad enough to reduce himself
to such a condition that drunken sleep
should master him; but it is perilous as
well as shameful. Is it worthy of a
man to bring himself down to such a
level of drowsy faulty?
The last piece of degradation is given,
for greater liveliness of impression, in
the form of the drunkark's own solilo-
guy. He feels himself all over, as he
begins to rouse from his tipsy sleep,
and pities himself that he has been so
badly handled. He is astonished to
find wounds and cudgel marks on him
self, as he passes his hand over his
body, and to feel that he rem embers
nothing of the fight in which he got
them. He is waking, but he is not
yet himself, and he wants to get
rid of the stupid feeling that Expresses
him. As he staggers back into con-
seriousness, the first thing that he
thinks of is renewal of his debauch.
Il will seek it yet again, though it has
covered me with wounds, and made my
| head heavy as lead. If | could only
roel off this bed, would go straight
for another drink" The awful tyranny
of the evil habit, which has become a
diseased second nature, is only too well
known. Thank God there are reformed
drunkards! But there are thousands
who are hopelessly bound by the chain
of their sins. And, since habit grows
fast, and no man can say to any evil,
Thus far shalt thou come, and no fur
Their" wisdom enjoins on all, and on
the young most of all. Give no foot
hold to this cruel enemy of all that is
| good. Look not on the wine when it
is reds. s. Times