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Year: 1878

is bad and wicked, and all the tinker
ing that may be done upon it cannot
fit it for honest purposes 1t must be
wiped out absolutely, in order that the
theory upon which it is constructed
may be eradicated. More than this,
the Denocratic party stands solemnly
pledged by its most earnest protesta-
tions in every campaign since its adop.
tion in 1865 to repeal it the very mo-
nlent that party got into power. This
promise has been the slogan of four
campaigns. and through eight long
years the people have held that pro-
ward to its redemption as to II new
them, now that the time has at length
come when the promise may be re-
deemed? We hope not; we believe
not. The present constitution is sign
of disgrace and ignominy upon our
people, left upon them by the vaga-
bonds who brought us the strange and
shameful evangel of carpet-baggery.
1T is not an expression of the free and
honest will of the people, but the edict
of a military satrap, thrust upon us
against our will, and not even by our
participation. Let us wipe it out for
the sake of honor and manhood. Let
this question he made the test in every
nomination for the Legislature, and
let only those be placed on the ticket
who are pledged to the calling of a
constitutional convention. The Baton
Rouge convention may think it mex
pedient to submit the question directly
to the people, but let this circumstance
have no weight. Whatever the action
of that convention may be, let the peo-
pie determine the question for them
selves and select as their representa-
tives in the next Legislature men who
will carry out their views.
Year: 1878

CHAPTER CV1.

 An Act for the Protection of Fisheries in the

 Housatonic River.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and Heuse of

 Representatives in General Assembly con-

 vened:

 Section 1. No person shall set or draw any seine or net i'll the Housatonic river between it's junction with the Naugatuck river and the dam at Birmingham between the first of April and the first day of July in each year.

 Sec. 2. All nets, seines, boats, and other fishing apparatus used in violation of the pre- ceeding section may be seized, on view, by any constable or fish warden of the town in which the same is being used, or by the sheriff or any deputy sheriff of the county, and such officer shall forthwith notify some justice of the peace of the town in which such property was seized, who shall, within three days there after, iss summons to all persons interested therein to appear before himself or some other justice of the peace in said town at time and place by him appointed, and show cause why it should not be forfeited and sold, which mo- tice shall be served by some proper officer or indifferent person upon the owner or owners of said property, if known, and if not known, by posting copy of such summons upon the sign-post in such town nearest to where such seizure was made, at least six days before said time of hearing. Said justice may, at said time, hear the parties in interest, or may order furthey notice to be given, and may adjourn from time to time; and if, upon hearing he shall find such property has been used contra ry to this act he shall declare it to be forfeited and order it to be sold at such time. by such person, with such notice, and in such manuer, as he may appoint, and the avails of such sale, after the payment of costs and expenses, shall be paid, half to said town and half to the per son who made such seizure,

 Sec. B. All fees in proceedings under this act shall be the same as in ordinary civil ac- tions in justices courts.

 Approved, March 27, 1878.
Year: 1878

An Act concerning Connecticut Hospital for

 Insane.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep

 resentatives in General Assembly convened:

 Section 1. When any pauper in any town may be insane selectman of such town shall apply to the judge of probate of the district wherein said pauper resides, for his admission to said hospital ;sand said judge shall appoint respectable physician, who shall fully inves- tigate the facts of the case and report to said judge and if such physician shall be satisfied that said pauper is insane, the judge shall or der such selectman forthwith to take such in sane pauper to the hospital, where he shall be kept and supported so long as may be requi- site, and two dollars and fifty cents per week of the expense of his support shall be paid by the town legally chargeable with his support and the balance by the State; and when an in- digent person not pauper is insane, appllca- tion may be made in his behalf to the judge of probate for the district where he resides, who shall appoint respectable physician, and selectman of the town where said indigent person resides, who shall fully investigate the facts and report to said judge, who if satisfied that such person is indigent and insane shall order him to be taken by the person making the application to the hospital, where he shall be kept and supported aslong as may be requi- site, and half of the expense of his support shall be paid by the town to which he would be chargeable if a pauper, and half by the per- son making the application and when judge shall issue an order for the admission of any pauper or indigent person to the hospital he shall record it and immediately transmit du- plicate to the governor.

 Sec. 3. The trustees may authorize the su perintendent to admit patients into the hospi tai under special agreements when there are vacancies.

 Sec. 3. The price for keeping any pauper or indigent person shall be fixed by the trustees, and shall not exceed the sum of four dollars per week. and shall be payable quarterly.

 Sec. 4. There shall be taxed monthly by the comptroller one dollar and fifty cents for each weeks board at said hospital, and two dollars for each weeks board at any other hospital or asylum for the insane of all insane paupers be- longing to towns in this state, committed in pursuance of the first section of this act, and the superintendents of each of said institutions shall make the bill therefor, and present it to the governor, upon whose approval it shall be paid from the state treasury.

 Sec. 5. Sections six, seven, eight, nine and ten of shapter four, title eight of the general statutes, and an act passed January session, A. D., 1877, entitled ''An act reducing the price to be paid by the state for the support of ind- gent and insane persons" be and the same are hereby repealed.

 Sec. 6. This act shall take effect from it's passage.

 Approved March 29 1878.
Year: 1878

I gazed upon the glorious sky And the green mountains round And thought that when I came 10 lie

 At rest within the ground, 'Twere pleasant. that in howery June, When brooks send up a cheerful tune,

 And groves joyous sound, The sexton's hand, nay grave to make, The rich, green mountain-turf should break. cell within tho frozen mould,

 coffin tberne:through sleet, And icy clouds above it rolled,

 While fierce the tempests beat Away !-I will not think of these Blue be the sky aud soft the breeze,

 Earth green beneath the feet, And be the damp mould gently pressed Into my narrow place of rest. There through long, long summer houra,

 The golden light should lie, And thick young herbs and groups of flowers

 Stand in their beauty by. The oriole shonld build and tell His love tale close beside my cell;

 The idle butterfly Should rest him there, and there be heard The housewife bee and humming bird. And what if cheerful shouts at noon

 Come, from the village sent, Or songs oi maids. brnea.h the moon

 With fairy laughter blent And what ii, ill the evening light, Betrothed lovers walk in sight

 Of my low monument? would the lovely scene around Might know no sadder sight nor sound. know that no more shall see

 The seasons glorious show, Nor would it's brightness shine for me.

 Nor it's wild music flow; But if, around my place of sleep, The friends love should come to weep,

 They might not haste to go. Soft airs, and song, and light, and bloom Should keep them lingering by my temb. These to their softened hearts should bear

 Tine thought of what has been, And speak of one wno cannot share

 The gladness of the scene; Who part i'll all the pomp that fills The circuit of the summer hills,

 In that his grave is green: And deeply would the1r hearts rejoice To hear again his living voice..
Year: 1878

Dr. W. F Carver, the famous rife shot, at the Quinnipiac range, did some remarkable shooting, Wednesday, before few friends. MT. W. W. Winchester took IS silver dollars and threw them one after the other into the air. The doctor hit every one of them, put ting bullet hole squarely through those that he hit In the center and tearing hole through those that were hit on either side, away from the center. He hit all of the coins, eleven of which were found, while the other seven were sent flying, the spectators did not know where. Then Colonel Smith threw up four cent nick els in succession, and, though they were seen to go up, they could not be found after the bullet had hit them. A couple of gentlemen then threw into the air number of small stones, all of which were shattered, by the doctor" The largest one of the lot he shatter- ed, and then rapidly rs-loading his rife, broke into fragments the largest bit before it fell to the ground. A small chipping bird flying acress the range was instantly brought to the ground by we'll l-directed rife bullet.
Year: 1878

Superintendent Howe's government of love does not seem to work very we'll in the Meriden reform school. Recently several boys, who had been let out on parole ran away and, while most of the keepers were busy hunting them up, about SO others stole the keys and some revolvers, and massed in the chapel for gen. eral outbreak, but they were finally subdued without bloodshed. Now the whip is used freely in the school, orders being given not to strike above the waist.
Year: 1878

One good thing ought to come out of this Potter investigation, in the unconscious reve- lation that the politicians are making of the way offices are peddled out and procured. Nothing more need be saidin illustration of the unsatisfactorlness of the whole civil service. If we had a civil service system there would be no opportunity for such attempts or such scandals. It would not be possible for such a fellow as Anderson to get an office by doing could only get it by the regular channel of a competitive examination, and when he entered for that he would need, what he is out of, good character as well as cleverness. Such fellows as Anderson could not apply and would not, and would have no inducement to commit fraud for one party or another in the expectation of being rewarded by an office. And if there had been civil service the guieless Stanley Matthews wouldn't have got into trouble, by his infantile attempt to play the. smart ward politician. Matthews would have nothing to do with Anderson, having nothing to do with appointments and places, and so Matthews might never have revealed himself to the country. Matthews might have been saved that IS, if he had also kept out of the Senate, and had been endowed with the requisite ability to keep his mouth closed on financial and all other questions. Pretty much all this game of ''dirty politics, :" which is game of promising and getting office, would disappear if offices were not the patronage of politicians. But as it now is, this subject absorbs pretty much the whole at tention of Washington; to curry favor with congressman in order to get office and in order to keep it reduces the official population of Washington to condition of cringing servil- ity and the possession of this patronage cor- rupts the congressman. It is vicious circle where the Matthewses and the Andersons meet. CourG7at.
Year: 1878

In Paris jokes on the Exhibition are in order. A widowed mother of penurious habits, with an only son, is reported to have called on a physician in reference to her boys health, She described his symptoms, among which was want of appetite. The doctor said it was on- ly the lassitude of spring. 'tLet me treat him, and will give him stomach to devour all before him" The widow thought moment. ''Provisions will be so dear when the Exhibi- ton opens! It is better to let him remain as he iS
Year: 1878

We have story from Middletown, Conn.,, that eclipses the marvel of oleomargarine The people of that place have accidently dis covered how to utilize bull. frogs by converting them into churners of butter. The discovery was thus reached; A farmer in the neighber- hood, having placed pail of milk in a spring of water to coel over night, went there the next morning, and found, it is solemnly as serted, instead of the pail of milk, large bull- frog sitting in contemplative mood upon roll of fresh butter. The sole explanation is that the frog had jumped from the water into the pail, and, in trying to extricate himself, had, by diligent and continuous strokes of his long legs, churned the milk into butter. Such thing might happen in rustic Connecticut, but we will venture to assert that no bull-frog, how ever energetic and trained. or however agri- cultural in instinct, could in any given time convert the aqueous kind of milk we get here into butter, or even into tolerable buttermilk Therefore, as we can receive no benefit from the discovery, we shall not attempt to put it in practice. We shall continue, in our usual barbarous fashion, to eat the hind legs of frogs, and leave it to Middletown ts employ them. as natural, spontaneous, self-acting churners.-N.

 F. Tunes.
Year: 1878

a Rhode Island lady who was in the
habit of taking large quantities of the
tincture of iron found great benefit from
the medicine, but also incurred large
bills at the apothecary's, which her hus-
band found it rather difficult to meet.
Instead of brutally cutting off her medi.
cinal supplies, this ingenious and hu-
name man conceived the plan of manu.
featuring tincture of iron in the secrecy
of his own WoOdshed. He therefore
procured pail, placed in it two pounds
of old iron nails, three drahms of iron
barrel-hoops and four scruples of mis-
cellaneous iron. To this he added one
gallon of aqua pltrd, and stirred the
mixture with pitchfork three times a
day for a week. At the end of that
time hebrew off the water with a siphon,
placed it in pint bottles and labeled
it "IElct. Ferz. Use as directed" His
wife took his homemade tincture with
out any suspicion that it was not DUR
chased at the apothecary's and derived
all the benefit from it which she had
derived from the apotheeary's own tine
ture. Although she had been afflicted
for several months with extreme weak
ness, her strength revived under the in
fuence of the tincture to such an ex-
tent that at the end of three weeks,
when she accidentally caught her hus-
band in the act of filling her bottle from
the pail in the woodshed, she was able
to lift a heavy pitchfork, and, after
welding it with great vigor for ten min
utes, to assist the hired man in dragging
her husband into the house, where she
subsequently applied arnica and brown
paper to nearly tWo-thirds of his entire
surface.
Year: 1878

Is. 1t is no doubt exceedingly liable to


be abused. 1t has in all ages been grossly
abused for the very worst purposes. But
so have many things, which in themselves
are praiseworthy enough. For children
in family, or with few young friends.
is there anything more Objectionable in
dance, than in those charades-dumh
and otherwise which with some serious
people are so popular? Is there any,
thing worse than those games where
forSeits generally involving any amount
of kissing are in the ascendRnt2 Is there
anything so bad as in the title tattle
that passes for conversation, and is not
so careful as it ought to be of other peo-
pies characters? We think not. 1t may
look absurd enough to see people caper-
ing about like lunatics, but, after all, as
a mere amusement, is there anything in
1t more foolish than fifty things in the
way OF relaxation which pass unchal-
lenged as mere matters of course? Can
a Christian with any degree of con-
sistency dance? We don't pretend to
say. Only Christian has liberty to do
anything that is not sinful. Can a clergy
man with propriety take turn at the
polka? If any Christian can, so can he,
for there are not two laws of conduct,
one for the clergyman and another for
the private Christian. If it is right for
the one, it is not wrong for the other
Can clergyman dance and fiddle and
drink until three or four O'Clock in the
morning. He may if he like, but how
comes it to pass that both saints and
sinners would unite in a suggestion to
any clergyman of that type that he had
better depart out of their co., Is, unless
it was felt that that sort proceeding
was scarcely in accordance with being
q servant of Christ in any capacity what
ever? What lots of people have dane
ing parties, at which they would not care
to see their Clergyman" leading of, Ia
company to prayers at three O'Clock in
the morningl And yet, why not? If
Miss Echo were bound to answer the
question, we rather guess she would say,
Pom my word, 1 don't know"
Year: 1878

1t is not necessary to define what most
of our readers know so well as dancing.
Whether we call it the "poetry of
motion" or characterize it in any other
way we please, it is undoubtedly an
amusement very generally resorted 10
and engaged in by many with infinite
relish. But if we do not need to define
dancing, or to describe its varied pecu-
liarities, it is very necessary to settle
whether or not it be an amusement in
which wise men and decent women may
with propriety take a part. About some
dances there can be no doubt at all, for
they are as indelicate and indecent as
any thing done in public possibly can be.
How husbands can ever tolerate their
wives, or brothers their sisters, or fathers
their daughters, in such exhibitions is a
mystery, though they do it, and seem
pleased with the performance all the
same. 1t is no use to reply with the stale
EVIL be to him that evil thinks" for
the evil is not matter of thinking atall,
but Of right. Even among what are
called decent and proper people, it is
simply shocking to see how delicate
and modest girls are, as one has phrased
it, "pawed" by every Tom, Dick and
Harry with whom she Twill be pleased,
ETC." The shocking results Of such dane
ing, all fashionable and endorsed as It
may be, are too distressing to think
about, and far more so to specify.


But apart from these dances, which to
be sure are the most popular in most
parties, and would have made our
grandmothers, however little prudish
they may be, hold up their hands in
amazement and disgust, is there any
thing essentially wrong In dancing itself,
when rightly ordered and taken in
! moderation? We cannot see that there
Year: 1878

The Millennium has not come yet,
though, in spite of all appearances to
the contrary, we believe it is coming.
Men are buster than ever in devising
destructive implements of war, and mu-
tual slaughter is not merely trade, but
a science. It used to be said that, in
proportion to the deadly character Of
the weapons of war, the slaughter Of
men became actually less, and the dura-
ton of the conflict was correspondingly
shortened. In the days that are passing
over US this is but partially true. No
doubt with telegraphs and railways, it is
scarcely possible to protract wars as they
used to be when George LII. was king.
Still when the combatants are pretty
well matched, the tussle may last good
while, and the slaughter be enormous.
In the course Of the campaign recently
closed in Turkey, the lives of not less
than 100000. men have been lost, while
a very large number have had their lives
shortened by the hardships they have
passed through and the wounds they
have received. This is a higher rate OF
casualties than prevailed in the Franco
Prussian conflict, though in the latter
double the number Of contestants were
engaged. 1t is much higher also than
what was usual in the NapOleonic wars
1t used to be said in the days of "BrowP
Bess," that for every man killed his
weight in lead had been shot away.
Modern science has made that a mere
tradition of the olden time. In one
assault on Pleyna, the Russian War
Office admitted a loss of 5000 killed,
and 10000 wounded, though perhaps
there were not more than thirty or forty
thousand engaged. In other words,
in that one unsuccessful assault the losses
of one of the combatants exceeded the
total of killed, wounded, and missing on
both sides at the world-famed battle Of
Austerlitz, and very nearly equalled the
whole French loss at Gravelotte. Even
in the four days fight at Leipsic, inwhieh
All 900 men were engaged, the percent
age of loss for all the four was not 50
great as in this assault at Plevna- The
Slaughter is evidently very greatly m
creased by improvement in weapons, u
is not so evident that the time OF nos
tilities is being correspondingly short
ened. Yet, after ali, we cannot despair
of the good time being here by-and-oys


SIrs comm yet for e. that,


When man to man theSwarld oEef


snail brothers be and e. that"
Year: 1878

Having obtained a wife, it is worth
while to inquire how Turk treats her.
She has much to complain of generally
from the personal ill-treatment of her
husband. The Turk in ordinary life is
not unkind or cruel. The wife's misfor-
tunes arise from her position.


AS husband and wife see little of each
other, they are not specially given to
quarreling. But she is woman, possibly
purchased outright in the slave market
-for 1t is pure illusion to suppose that
the slave trade in Turkey has been abol-
ished-and being a woman she bears
about her on every hand the marks OF
degradation. 1t is her duty to wait on
her husband, if he is poor, at meals. Her
accommodation in the house is inferior
to his. In all things she is his slave.


If the wife is the daughter of a veal
thy man, her lot is not hard one. AS
the law regards marriage merely as a
partnership, she keeps her own property,
and the husband has to be on his good
behavior to obtain q share of it. If she
be of poor origin, she can scarcely be
said to have any rights. When harem
is on board a vessel, the husband keeps
In the saloon, living we'll and sleeping in
a comfortable cabin. The poor women
are penned up as deck passengers, living
on wretched food which they take with
them.


"0nly few weeks ago" says travel
Ter, Il was ina steamer carrying harem,
where there were probably twenty wo-
men. wives and slaves, who were shiver-
ing under canvas, which was quite in
sufficient to keep out the pelting rain. l
know thf It it is thing almost unknown
for ha' rem to have cabins taken for 1t.
The hU sband takes care of himself-has,
PERHAPS, unlimited champagne - and
leave his women huddled together on
deey. to take care of themselves"
Year: 1878

To lovers of the beautiful, it is really
trying to observe how few women under
stand the method of arranging the hair
in way most becoming to them. No
woman should follow a fashion which is
unsuited to her simply because it is the
fashion. Let every woman study her
face before he dresses her hair, as she
studies her hand before she buys her
gloves. If she fiads her forehead mar
rowing above the cheek-bOne, let her
never fail to insert pads in her hair at
the side. fit be a broad forehead, while
her face is narrow, let her avoid this
style rightly, whatever be the fashion.
Ifher forehead be ill-shaped, let her eul-
tivste fringe" if she possesses hne
brow, she should not so disguise 1t. II
her head be slightly fiat, a coronet OF
plaits. or the hair turned over cushion,
are the only alternatives; but if natural
Iv too high, let her disperse elsewhere
the fullness of hair. And should the
head be perfect in shape, let her dress
the hair as plainly as possible, and make
a point of showing charm that Is ex-
ceedingly rare. 1t would be simply waste
and ruin to pad it into all sorts Of shapes.
In wearing false hair, great judgment
should be exercised. As much should
be used as looks natural, and no more.
Great cables of hair, and masses Of ring
lets, are not natural, and therefore, weary
the eye, while nobody is imposed upon
by them.