,4 4 ‘h emanate. ,. » deemsieghe last aim months, . Last week his body was found on an island ...i'/ ,,, bi 0:5: . Wizi ~ The Alabamaawards on the ship B. F. Hoxie will bring nearly " sesame into Mystic. " ~11. " ': M. McMahon's barn in About, wasburned Saturday night,.and another one, set on fire, but not much damaged. The tower in the' Town Hall, Stamford, is . some eight incite out of plumb,_and‘ 'theSe- . lectmei'i have 0' ered a wall to bebuilt for its i support. . " - ' , iVilliam Wallace, of Ansonia, has purchas— ed a $1,200 steam yacht, which he will put upon the lake above the Ansonia dam, next summer. ' 'A drunken man named Sandy Farm of Portland started to cross the Air Line bridge - from Middletown on, Monday, fell through and was fatally injured. 1 _ There are three hundred audvsiXty-three boys. in 9,1301%me 30110091 at,.J.Men§en..a' greater number than ever before, and every one in good health. ‘Thereéhavezbe‘en no.- Darin ’the past=weeli“thneérLit'chfield ‘ i. — dents, essrs.‘ Henry Bissell. Derrick fW. Sanford and Miles,,Taylor,,l_iave,been stricken with. paralysis, ; The‘form‘er-jsf not expected ' tosurviv'e,‘but' Messrs. Sanford and Taylor arebetter. , . , - ,Bur lars took' $200 worth of silver ware ; from fames R. Smith’s house in Fairfield, : Tuesday night. swatch (and some other articles from the , house of Stephen Burroughs in Long Hill ' and visited several other houses in that vicin- . “Y- r - - ' - 3. . 1. Woodstock. is in a state of .excitement over E- ' ( discoveries of 'gold and silver; A ledge on . the Brown farms seemsto be quite rich in § both minerals. Mr. Rufus TOWne thus far i shows the finest specimens. ‘.In driving on 1 the public road it was thrown" by the wheel i into the wagon. - ' 5, President Barnum, of the Connecticut Western Railroad compan , and other oili- cials were in consultation hursday, in Hart- ford, with the President of the Poughkeepsie Bridge edinpany and err-Mayor Eastman, of Poughkeepsie, who exhibited and explained the plan for; the structure. Owen' Walsh, of Ansonia, mysteriously dis- appeared about the middle of last December. in the river near the Seymour dam. There was a deep gash on the top of his head, lead. ing man to think that he was foully dealt With. c was last seen in a saloon. The Litchfield Enquirer says: “Tuesda , the fifteenth, was a sorrowful day for o d Litchfield. Our noble elms, the chief orna- ment of our beautiful village, suffered such wreck from ice as has not been known since the destructive storm of January, 1861. As we write the crash of falling branches is heard on every side, but“. the most pitiable sight of all is the destruction wrought on the young trees just beginning to promise the stately beauty of their elder brethren.” The Palladium has the following: “ Aus— tln Rogers, of Bridgeport, thirty years old, a carpenter by trade, who has been working for some time past in Hartford, while crossing the park in that city last Saturda night, met a. woman whom he spoke to an indecently assaulted. No one was near to whom she could call for assistance, and she drew a pis- tol from her pocket and shot Austin. He cried out, as if in pain, and ran away. He was found Monday night in & room-on As lum street, suffering from the wound he h re- ceived. He had been keeping very quiet,and he would not at first admit that he had been shot by an insulted woman. Under cross-examination, he broke down, and told the w ole story. His wound is not consider- ed a angcrous one, although the ball struck in the left side near the heart and below it. It apparently hit a rib and passed around in- stead of reaching a vital part. The lady who pluckily fired the shot in defence of her hon- or, has also been discovered, and is ready to testify in court _if called upon, but does not desire the publicity which would result from an investigation.” _-._._.._. A terrible disaster is reported from Eng- land, two steamers colliding ofi Dover, the accident resulting in the explosion of the boiler of one of the vessels, followed by her immediate sinkin , with the less of 52 out of 57_ passen rs. ie disaster appears to have been pure y accidents]. The sunken steam- er was bound from London to Bombay. ' streamline a: ' TUESDAYFEBZch I876, a, ., cowcatcher. _ .the locomotive and rabbit 'kept up this speed, Wednesday night they “wk“; out 915 ii ” Ii ,‘ . A Race. The Denver News tells the following story ; Plains-en will be surprised to ,hear that there is something in the world that can run faster than a jack-rabbit. As a passenger train on the Union Pacific, heading cast, was rattling along over the the Laramie plains the other night, the engineer, look' from the cab down along the glimmering rails, es pied ahuge jack-rabbit bounding over the ties about thirty feet ahead of the cowcatch. er. -' The engineer put on some 'mo're'esteam and the pondcrous locomotive shot’ ah'e‘ad like an arrow, but the jacksonian rabbit pricked .up his ears, slapped on a full calorie, and lit out at the rate of twenty feet a jump. Pride was touched. His locomotive is one of the biggest and swiftest on the line, and he was afraid that if he let the jack-rabbit 'outurn him the be a would find it out, and he would ' be everlastingly disgrawd.‘ So he turned on more steam, and the engine made a bound under the cloud of _smokewhich belched from the smokestack. d the telegraph poles danced past Wildly, *wk let out another section of his legs, and ept right along down the level grade, just out of the reach of the For'five miles and a quarter when the latter began to weaken. The engineer, rei ing in his iron horse, wen: out on the pi ot,'3'a'nd leaningforward, reached out and picked up the rabbit, as the engine jolted along slowly. .—<..——. Tm: OLD Ran Carin—As the old “red cent” has now passed out of use, and almost eight,~ like _ the ‘fold oaken bucket," it'shistory is a matter of sufiicien‘. interest of‘ preservation. The cent was first proposed by Robert Morris, the great finan- cicreof the Revolution, and was named by Jefferson two years after. It began to make its appearance from the Mint in 1792. It bore the head of Washington on one side, and thirteen links on the other. The French Revolution soon created a rage for French ideas in America, which put on the cent, instead of the head, of Washin ton, the head of the Goddess of Liberty—a nch Liber ty, with neck thurst forward and flowing locks. The chain on the reverse side was displaced by the olive wreath of peace, but the French Liberty was short-lived, and so was her protrait on our cent. The next head or figure that succeeded this—the staid, clas sic dame with a fillet around her hair—cams into fashion about forty years ago, and her finely chiseled Grecian features have been but slightly altered by the lapse of time. «Mu-m , .04.; —.~ Carl Schurz says in his letter to his paper: ——“A spectacle of helplessness more melan— choly than the democratic majority in the house of representatives now offers can scarcely be found in the history of parties. What great things were prophesied when this party should get into its hands even a part of the power of government! And now the possession of this power in the house of representatives has only afforded a new opportunity for one moral overthrow after another, until the best heads of the party curse their victory in the year 1874, because it has only brought their impotence to light and inspired their antagonists with new vital- ity. And yet you see the machine managers busy at work, not to carry through the nom» ination of one of their-best men for President, but that some one who entirely represents the wants of substance and principle in the arty in order that this way they may keep t re old concern somehow together.” «4.9-. .-, The discovery of aboiling lake in the Island of Dominica hasexcited much scientific in. terest, and investigations of the phenomenon are to be made by geologists. It appears that acompany exploring the steep and forest- covered mountains behind the town of Ros- seau came upon this boiling lake, about 2,500 feet above the sea level, and two miles in circumference. 0n the wind clearing away for a moment the clouds of sulphurous steam with which the lake was covered, a mound of water was seen ten feet higher than the general level of the surface, caused by ebull- tion. The margin of the lake consists of beds of sulphur and its overflowing found exit by a waterfall of great height. .—-.s _. ....._.... A gentleman was urged, the other day, to embrace religion, but he replied, sneeringly, “Mr. Winslow Was a Christian, I believe ; I don’t want that kind of religion." The en- swer he received was, “I don’t blame on, but suppose you try your mother's kind; you know what a blessing her hope was both. to her and you." w
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