$2.00 per A.isrisr'crjszE. VOL. 2. NO. 34 ®Uv -OWBINING THE JIM.ES 6f JEFFERSONIAN IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY BAILEY DONOVAN. THE NEWS 18 specially devoted to the interests of Danbury and vicinity, and gives more local news than other couu t ry newspaper in Connecticut. FOR TERMS OF SU3SCRIPTION, SEE SECOND PAGE. ADVERTISING. X lottery, gift sale, orobseene advertising receiv ed at any price. Special Notices. 25 per cent, additional to regular rates. B Hieeee N trees, e tch insertion, SI.OO for 5 lines or ess; 1) cents for each a iditional line. A loerl'w.i'nts not under contract, must be plainly •narked the length of ti ne desired, or they will be continued a id caatged for until ordered out. J. VI. BAILEY. T. DONOVAN. yt'. AT’LL! AM F LACEY, Physician and. Surgeon VFFICK—AT HIS RESTDENCr.. ^K. E. THOMPSON, Agent for all kinds of the most approved styles of ra.j3 3 h s XUPeoaTERS and SdOgLDER BRACES, At Wholesale and Retail. MI orders promptly attended to. Residence, see ond door south of the Court House, Danbury, Conn. ww. H. THORNTON, D E N T 1 S’ T. Offic cor. £l. in i* i >erty ots Dt i. ,ury (F tnerly occupied, by lames O. Fitch.j Early a tent ion to cue natural teeth not only saves xpense, >ut also many hours of needless pain. N. B.—ill work warranted. 1 tt yy M. J. RYDER Is inserting Teeth.ou Gold, Silver, Hose Pearl and RUBBEK PLATES. He has a .urge and entirely new assortment of Teeth for Kubper work, and can suit the must fastru lous taste. Odice in Bacon's Building. DYE WORKS. IMPORTANT NOTICE TO GENTLE MEN LOUIS MOEGLING, AT THE Canassticul Dye Warks, DANBURY. CONX.. Has introduced a new and patent, process by which GE n’TLE dENS’ CLO CHING can be cleaned and renovated in a superior mlnner WITHOUT RIPPING. PARASOLS cleaned without being taken off the Frames, Call and s> o Samples. 62 if SiLVW MACHINES. 7 iOMPLBTE Sawing Machine Depot. Whealer Wilson, Grover Baker, and other leading SEWING MACHINES, as heretofore Ah Fairfield Couuty Agents for the addle, we call special attention to THE BEAUTIFUL FLORENCE with iM celebrated RenerM Feed, unequalled Shut improved Tension si.npie, reliaole, and ALWAYS READY for work. Seo It before purchasing. The most com plete assortment, by tar, of NEEDLES AND PARTS for all leading Machines in the County. CLEANING and REPAIRING thoroughly done. MACHINES RENTED, wita privi egeof purchase at reduced rates’. Privilege of EXCHANGE of machines purchased. Full >varra.ity of uew machines aud repairing. A fall line of Silas. Cutton, Oil, AtUetunents, &c. New Combination Casters. New Shutt e Cotton, ready wound All novelli 3 promptly procured. Your patronage respectfully solicited. MOdEHOUSE HEATH, NICHOLS' BLOCK MAIN ST. 65 ts jjESHLARS FEVER AND AGUE PILLS stand indisputably at the head of the Proprietory Medicines of the day. They are prepared with tnor ouguly scieu.ide care and accuracy. I’hey are recog nized oy eminent medical men of both scuools, as the only saje and certain remedy for Chills and Feoer. Safe, becausi containing aeitner mercury, quinine or arsenic, tney are entirely harmless co the human sys tem certain, because in an experience of twenty years, scarely a case has been met with, where they nave failed to cure, while their friends numoer hun dreds ut tao.isauds. From all sections of the country aad fro.n all classes of the community we have let ters testifying to their merits, try them I FUR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. PRICE ON 111 I>OLL IK PKK BOX. 70 4m. “3 NUKSERY. SUPERB STOCK OF Evergreen, Apple, Cherry and Pear Trees. Rose and Quince Bushes. A full line of Nursery stock, all of which can be purchased at lower rates than elsewhere. Also a tine lot of Shrubbery Plants, at DANBURI NURSERY North End of Main Street. Call and see. W. A. D iNIELS, Proprietor. Hlb¥s7 T ALLOWEtc. OABH. You can got the highest market pricejor your HIDES FAT AND TRIED TALLOW. Calf and Lamb Skins. ALSO FOK HEAUs AND; FEET. Or you can exchange your fat for a Superior Article of Candles. Made expressly for family use, or have your tallow made into ci.ndles at 4 cents por pound. Pare Neats Foot Oil. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Dealers supplied with a superior article of candle at trade prices. EDWARD BABBITT. Boughton’s Lane, Danbury, Conn I IKSRY PEBIIY, Tin. Stat ton am Ggneral JoW. Special attention paid to "JL" IXX Art. o yy all work warranted Main Street, opposite the Rooster House, Danbury WATCHES' ’I’HOS. B. FANTON, A Sole Agent for Waltham and Elgin watches. Call and lu ok at them before you purchase. Watches repaired oy au expenened workman, late with Bvu e diet Bros., Broadway, x. X. TUGS. B. FANTON, Msf Sign of Goid_Wateh, opp. Danbury Library I ^7 //M IXY iri^ ^uFTr^TT-B -n v< iri^mWYirt^ MEDLINE. A GREAI MEDICAL DIsUvVEKY Wallsior’is California Vinegar Bitters- HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS Bear testimony to their Wonderful Curative Effect W HAT ARE THE) They are not a vile FANCY DRINK. Made of Poor Rum, Whisky, Proof Spirits, aud Re fuse Liquors doctored, spiced and s weetened to pleas< the taste, called “Tonics.” “AppetD< rs “Restorers,’ &c., that lead the tippler on to drunkenn "nd ruin but are a true Medicine, made fr e Nativ md Herbs of California, free from all a.. holic Sti ulants. They are the Great Bluou Puritter a. Life giving Principle, a perfect Renovator and Invito.- of the system, carrying off all poisonous matter am restoringthe blood to a healthy condition. No perso can lake these Bitters according to directiona.il re main lopg unwell, provided the bones are not destroy ed by mineral poison or other means, and th vit i organs wasted beyond the point of repair They are a Gentle Purgative as well as a Tonic, pos sessing also, the peculiar merit of acting as a power fnl agent in relieving Congestion or luriamation of the Liver, aud all the Visceral Organs For Inflamatory and Chronic Rheimatism and Gout Dyspepsia, or Indigestion. Bilious, Remittent and In. termittent Fevers, Diseasesof the Blood, Liver, Kid noys and Bladder, these Bitters have been most su cessful. Such Diseases are caused by Vitiated Blood, which is generally produced by derangement of the Digestive Organs. DYSPEPSIA. OR INDIGESTION, Headache, Pan. in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of the Chest. Dizziness, Sour Eructations of the Stomach, Bad taste in the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpitation of the Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs. Pain in the region? oi the Kidneys, and a hundred other painful symp toms. are the offspring of Dyspepsia. They invigorate the Stomach aud stimulate the tor pid liver and bowels, which render them of unequal ed efficacy in cleansing the blood of all impurities and imparting new life and vigor to the whole system. FOR SKIN DISEASES. Eruptions. Tetter, Salt Rhefim, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules. Boils Carbuncles, Ring W orm can. I trd. Sore Eyes Erysipelas, Itch Scurfs. Discolorations of the skin linmors and Diseases of the skin, of whatever name or nature, are literally dug up and carried out of the system in a short time by the use of these Bitters One Bottle in such cases will convince the most in credulous of their curative effect. Cleanse the Vitiated Blood whenever you find its impurities bursting through the skin in Pimples Eruptions or sores cleanse it when yon find it ob structod and sluggish in the veins, cleanse it when it is foul, aud your feelings will tell you when. Ke< p the blood pure, and the health of the system will fol low. PIN, TAPE and other WORMS, lurking in the sys tern of so many thottsa' ds, are effectually destroyed and removed For full directions, read carefully the circular around each bottle, printed in four languages -English. German, French and Spanish J WALKER, Proprietor. R. H. MCDONALD CO. Druggists and General Agents, San Francisco, CaL,and 32and 34 Commerce street, New York. Sold by all Druggists and Dealers.sl ts INSURANCE. L. HUBBELL Agent for the Mutual Life Insurance Co. OF NEW YORK. Assets";: $45,000,000. Also FIRE INSURANCE IN FIRST CLASS COMPANIES I OMco with A. B. Knapp, in the Post Office Bnildig £NBURANCE. The flrm of Jones Jt Hoyt having dissolved, the lat ter has moved his office to Hamlin’s Gallery of Art. opposite Concert Hall, aud is uow under the name of lloyt Hamlin. Those who wish to get their prop erty insured in first-class companies, such as Aetna and North American, of Hartford, and the old orig inal Home of N. Y., and others, will do well to call ou Hoyt Ji Hamlin. Office at Hamlin’s Gallery of Art F. C. HOYT. E. G. HAMLIN. JONES” General Insurace Agency. Office Cor. Maia and West, Streets, UP STAIRS. DANBURY, CONX. The oldest Agency in Danbury and vicinity. Per fectly reliable, safe, and well-established companies, represented as follows; Capital and SnnrLvs. Hartford Fire, of Hartford, $3,000,000 insurance Co., N. America, of Phila., 3,000,A35 Middlesex Mutual Assurance Cc., 2,13i>,512 Phcenix, of Hartford, 1,700,000 Travelers’Life and Accident, 1,588,588 Andes, of Cincinnati, 1,181,009 Putnam, of Hartford. 770,782 Home, of Columbus, Ohio, 638,447 City Fire, of Hartford, 573,000 Merchants, of Hartford, 475,000 Connecticut, of Hartford, 450,000 Norwalk, of Norwalk, 400,00 u Fairfield County Fire, South Norwalk, 250,000 The public are invited to call at my office, where all information relating to both Life. Fire and Accident Insurance, will be freely given. They are sure to got -the “genuine article.” 49 ts T. JONES. f X. E. COW PERTH WAIT, General Insurance Agent. Office West Side of Main Street, DANBURY, CONN. SZWIITG MACHINES. ^GENTS WANTED, IN ALL UNOCCVPIED TERRITORY, FOR THE SALE OF He Best Selling Sewing Machine IN THE .COUNTRY. Ono which gives tNiVERStL SATISIJAC TIOS, and every machine sold i» a Itc-GOal- MKN NATION. Agents wanted everywhere, in every town and city throughout Connecticut. No agcncy.ofl'ercd will pay so well as one for THE WILSON New Under-Feed Shuttle Sewing Machine THE LAST AND NEWEST. Embracing everything of utility in Sewing Machinery, ana combining tho excellencies of all First-class Machines. It is outside of the Combination, and sold for Fif teen Dollars less than their prices. Price Forty-fire Dollars. AWritten G.uarantee For Five Years WITH EVERY MACHINE. Extra inducements to|local or travelling agents. For circulars and terms addres Salisbury Bros, Co., PROViDENCtfi, R. I. [BO 3m Genera. Agents forJßhodo Island and Connecticnt. TRAVELER’S GUIDE. OAILY LINE, 1871. NORWALK AND NEW YORK Connecting with Danbury Railroad. The Steamboat NELLf WHITE. •eaves Pier 37 East River, foot of Market Street, at -u5, and from foot 37th st., East River, .t 3 o'clock. P. M., every afternoon (Sunday excepted) and from South Norwalk every morning at 7:45 o'clock, or ou arrival of the Railroad trains from Danbury and New laven. Passengers and baggage conveyed to and from the lepot at South Norwalk free of charge. t'aru cis. Excursion Tickets $1.25 Freight taken at Propeller’s rates. N. B. The Nelly White connects with the train that leaves Danbury at 6:30 A. M ,and from New York with trains that leave South Norwalk al 6:18 I’. M. 58 ts J^ANBURY A- NORWALK RAILROAD. Autumn Arrangement. COAMENCIbt 01/i. 16th.1871 LEAVE DANBURY. 6.30 A.M.. i Passenger trains connecting at South .2 M., >Norwalk with trains for New York and 1:35 P. M., New Huven. •1:45 P. M. Freight and Milk Train. LEAVE SOUTH NORWALK. 1:00 A. M, I Passenger trains in connection with .55 P M.,) 7:o A. M., 12:15 P. M trains from New York. 1:05 P.M. Freight train. 6:17 P. M. Express train for Danbury, Bethel, Red ding, aud Sanford's, only. u 6:22 P. M. Accommodation train for Ridgefield an all Intermediate stations Ridgefield Branch. Trains on Ridgefield Bi inch run to the down trains and from the np trains. JOI W .FACON.SuDt, 1 NEW YORK HOL ATONt J wt 6:30 P. M. trains from Danbury, connect with H. rsatouic trains for Bridge port and intermediate Su ons. The 11:15.A. XL, and6:3l .M trains from Danbury, connect with Housatonic ..ins for Pittsfield aud in termediate stations Albany Passengers tak the 11:15 A. M. train at Danbury, reaching Alban st 4:52 P. M. Passengers leave Bridgeport for Dani try at 10:30 A. M.. and 5:40 P. M. FRED. M. MEAD, Supt. ANBURY A BREWSTER STATION STAGE LINE! GOING. Leave Danbury at 10:15A. M., or on arrival of train from Norwalk, and connc tat Brewster’s with Rut land Express at l i:47 P. M and with Freight for the south. At the same stopping at Pawling, Dover Plains, Amenia, an connect with Duchess Colum bia R. R. for Fishkill, Hillsdale, Chatham and Albany. RETURNING. Leave Chatham Mail train at 12:30 P M stopping at al) stations, aud connecting at Milltown with Colum bia R. R., on arrival at Brewster's at 3:47P. M. Danbury, Aug. Ist, 1871. BERLIN ST. JOHN, Pro. GROCERIES. AHEAP GROCERY STAND. CORNER OF MAIN AND PATCH STS. Fop the accommodation of the up town and coun ry trade. The freshest and best groceries constantly on hand, and offered at the lowest rates. sUGAR COFFEE TEA. BUTTER. LAUD Tias nud Toftes Specialities. The best Inthe market. Carefully selected, and put down to tfie lowest prices. Standard Kerosene oil--110. WARRANTED. potatoes. PICKLES. FLOUR OI INGES. LEMONS. CANDIES. 4. Give me a call and satlsl yourself that my prices and goods cannot be belte d. OLIVER P. CLARK. NEW XFORD. _ I rpOBACCO Have you sold Do you want to buy If so, go to the NEW YORK CLOTHING STORE,; OPPOSITE THE BANK, NEW MILFORD, CONN., Where you will find the store filled and overflowing with goods just .opened for the Fall Trade of 1871. The largest stock of Ready Made Clothing in the County. Also, Cloths, Cassimeres, Vestings, and Trimmings, which will be sold by the yard or cut and made up in the latest Fashions and Styles. Calculated to please the most fastidious. You will also find a targe stock of ttat« and CAPS Of the finest styles and best qualities, selling very low. Gents’ Furnishing Goods In great variety, consisting of Shirts, Collars, Ho siery. Gloves. Neck-ties, Bows. Scarfs. Pocket Hand kerchiefs, Suspenders, Napkins, Drawers, Overalls, and Over Jackets, Rubber Ciotning. Umbrellas, Trav elling Bags, Trunks. &c. In fact, everything to make a gentleman’s wardrobe complete, All of the above articles will be sold very low, at least 25 per cent, cheaper than any other place in TOWN or COUNTY. Thankful for the liberal patronage bestowed in tho past, we invite the Public to examine our stock before purchasing elsewhere. 11. GOODSELL, Cutter. M NRNJR BRO, izonN/EE jsts-w’s without politics.” DANBURY, CONN., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 18717' Solicitous Soliciting. Mr. Editor; As my tender bodied wife was appointed a connuittee to solicit sub criptious for the Chicago poor through our lan. 1 I want to show you, my dear, the trial and tribulations she experienced on her mission of love, purity and Opidildocity. The first house was Mrs. Spriggins, (she is an emigrant from old England and during our late unpleasantness she and her husband sold out and vamoosed back to safe old Eng land until after everything was lovely). Mrs. Jones, my wife, approached the door with book and pencil in hand and in her tenderest tones acquainted Mrs. Spriggins with the fact that she was soliciting sub scriptions of money, clothes, or anything else for the destitute people of Chicago and (Michigan; in fact, she made a glorious speech in tue favor of anything pertaining to tire. But no; old H. was poor ami couldn't afford afford to contribute anything, had just managed to pay for our house, and hadn’t anything in the house but an old pa.r of Abe’s oveiaJs and a pair of rubbers. Just bad twenty-seven dollars and couldn’t b eak that as she wanted to raise three more so she could put thirty dollars in the bank. Good morning; and slam bang went the door in my poor Alls. Join s’ face. Tears came to her eyes and her dander rose, and if she only hud old H. in her reach then, she would have pounded her to powder. In the next house lived a poor old woman who took in washing for a living, to whom Urs. Jones made her same flowery sp< ech, to which I Mrs. McGaffen replied, Bedad, I’m not I over flush im.-self, but the Lord knows that 11 may lie burned out some day, aud, Mis. Jones, I’ve only a quarther in the house lake it, it may buy some poor divil a loaf.” In the next house lived Old Mother Gossip, who spent the most of her time looking af ter her neighbor’s business, and working too much with her mouth. Mrs. Gossip had tried so hard to get upon the sime footing with Mis. Jones, and had been snubbed so many times, that a genuine hatred bait taken possession of her breast, and when my rib gave her gentle tap at the door she drew her self up and her nose down, and gave direc tions to her husband to admit the “hussy.” The same speech was in order except the in terruption caused by old G. hemming and occasionally bringing her heel down ou the oilcloth. Everything has an end—so did Mrs. Jones’speech—and .lira G., with tiger like spring and hair on end, howled at Mrs. Jones, “If I’ve got anything to give, I’ll hand it to some one more reliable.” She was mad because she had not the appoint ment of committee man for our lane. '1 he next house coutained a puor but honest Ger man. Mrs. Jones by this time approached a house like one hunting blackberries barefoot. She made that same speech and thought to herself, if she raised a quarter in this house she was doing well, but bless the Teutonic heart, she opened it and her pocket-book fit the same time, and shot into Mrs. Jones’ lap five dollars, saying, “speckelbecks un gros sun, duuder ine dobbleshen, grabbelspelly, hobblestegobble, &c., &c. Mrs. Ex., inthe next house, had a buggy feather bed she could have. Mi's. J., who lives in the old shop, gave a walking cane. Mrs. K. contributed a stove. Mrs. Smith a mouse trap. Mrs. Dusenberry gave a cradel, one rocker off. Mrs- Mullady three breadths of rag carpet. Mrs. Heanhussy gave a sausage staffer, aud old Mother llitentite contributed a set of false teeth that belonged to her deceased Khuben. To see the collection that is spread out in my cellar would make Barnum mad. There will be an auction in “our lane” in a few days, and the auctioneer will be Yours truly Prof. Lioutfoot. Spiders. We always think of spiders with webs.; but all spiders do not make webs. 1 here are trap door spiders, for instance, which are found in the south of Europe and m the We«t Indi s. The female digs a hole in the eaith, about six inches deep and one inch across, and lines it with silk of her own weav ing. At the hole’s mouth she makes a round door, fastened at the rim of the bole by a silk hinge The spider opens the. door, but the door shuts itself. This trap door is full of very small holes, which, nevertheless, gives light aud air to the spider’s home. There is another little spider, sometimes found in our ponds aud rivers, which makes quite another sort of home. It lives in a lit- tie diving bell, under the water, which it I builds very curiously. It comes to the top of-the water, gets a bubble of air, and car- j ries it down to the stock of a plant below, having safely secured it, it mounts up for another, and for another, until there are air I bubbles enough to live in Over this it weaves a covering iu thu form of a diving I bell—light at the top, and open below and here the bttle water spider sits and dives at the water-mites which swim around its cabin door. Huw a Chica(o Nan Fought the Fire. One more building that remains an oasis in a bleak and black Sahara, is a small white wooden cottage on Lincoln place. A police man named Bellinger lived here. He hauled up the sidewalk, raked up the leaves and burned them, hewed down the fence and carried it into the house In pieces, and noti tie! his neighbors that, live or die, he would stick to that house. The fire advanced and gave battle. It flung torches into his porch, it hurled them through the windows, it began and kept up a hot bombardment of flaming shot upon the roof. He met it at every point, with hands and boots, with water and wet blankets, and finally, as the last wave of fire enveloped the building in a sirocco and whirled through the crackling tree tops and gyrated madly over the adjacent walls and wavered aud whirled over the smoking roof, Bellinger cast a pail into bis cis era I and it was dry. The blankets were on fire. Then the Bellinger genius rose triumphant. He assaulted bis cider barrels, and little by little emptied their contents on ihe roof. It was the coup de guerie. It gave him vic ory. His blankets were scorched, his hands b ist cred, his boots distorted at d his hous was i saved. And Bellinger h sgo eto taking boarders.— Cor. E. K Tr bune. A gentlemen once boasted to a friend that he could iuitodme to h m an engineer of more wonderful skill thau Robert fticphcu son. Iu fulfilment of the boast, lie brought out a glass tumbler containing little scarlet colored spider, whose beauty, its bright yellow nest on a sprig of laurustinue, hud induced a yonng lady to pluck the sprig from the bush where it was growing. When brought into the house it was placed on the mantel-piece, and secured by placing a glass over it. In a very short time this wonderful little engineer contrived to accomplish the herculean task of raising the sprig of laurus tinus, a weight several hundred times great er than himself, to the upper part of the glass, and attaching it there so firmly that it remained suspended for many years’ where it was hung by the spider. The fire in Chicago had the curious effect of spoiling the “outsides” of nearly 200 week ly newspapers which are published hundreds of miles from that city in. Illinois, low Wisconsin and Minnesota. One of the lead ing printers in Chicago did a large buainess in printing these “outsides” in duplicate and sending them to different places, where the local publishers printed the news on the other side. The farmers who depended upon these sheets for their weekly supply of news must have been puzzled to know how the Chicago fire could have deprived them of their village newspaperwhile the home office remained in tact. A Western New York spiritualist came near losing his daughter because be relied upon the spirits to cure her, and would not permit a doctor to be called. At length, However, he listened to better counsels, and a dose of old-fasbioned, terrestrial physic wrought out a cur the ghosts denied. A Chicago bootblack has just bought $9 0 worth of property in Detroit, paying for e same in ten cent piece It t ok ome ho ra to count the funds. hi win an earne in the legitimate “Sane ’em jup” trace in five year*. W fay Did CUleaco Burn so Fast 7 Variius theoiies are advanced to account f the intensified, driven flame from some vist blowpipe. It gave the ter ror-stricken inhabitants scarcely time to es cape with tbtir lives. A hundred perished in the flames. Solid walls of brick and mortar and Joliet stone went down before the sweeping lire almost literally as fast as if they had been light structures of pine satu rated with turpentine. The flames seemed to penetrate the lofty stone walls as soon an tiny struck them. What does.it all mean? le the solid st structures man can raise of no m*re avail to resist fire than so many cob hous s? Was there in ChiCago some secret and general scheme of incendiarism t One comspun.lent of the Times suggests that these Chicago fires were set by secret agents of Brigham Young and his Mormons. His argnm- nt is, that a community of zealots who seek to maintain, and defend at one and the same time, a system of religion and a scheme of beastly licientiousness, by such se cret and systematic murders as the “Danites” of Salt Lake have committed, are capable of any, atrocities; and that it may have been Young’s idea now, when Mormonism is driven to its last ditch, and is making its last desperate fight against the higher civili zation which is to overwhelm it, a stunning conflagratim of one of the largest American cities would cause all hands to pause, and to ask what it all means. The theory, though very improbable, is not wholly preposterous. But we think the explanation given by Chambers' Journal, much more likely to be nearer the truth. This theory is nothing more nor less than tho “Joliet stone,” of which Chicago was so largely built, is natur ally saturated with an oleaginous substance somvwnat like petroleum, and that hence it is highly inflammable in the midst of a great fire. This idea, put forth by the English publication we have named in advance of the fire, was quickly followed hy that une qualled conflagration. If the fact be what the writer asserts, it can aud will soon be shown. In that event the wonder will be, not that Chicago has been burned down, but mat it was not burned before. Tlie Roaton. Hartforil Sc, Krfe Rail* road— anevu raging Proa peats. From Windham county to New Y'ork State there are evidences of suddenly re newed activity along the line of this road and the assurance is given at every point from this city westward through Fairfield county, that the road will now be steadily carried on to its completion. Since the man agement of this corporation fell into the hands of the present board of trustees, says the Boston J urnal, its prospects have con tinued to brighten, and the road will be completed to Willimantic and the line open to public travel to Hartford and New Y’ork soon. Assurances have been given by Mr. Munson, that in four weeks at the outset the road will be completed from Boston to this city, and ready to open. Great activity is manifested all along the line iu rebuilding and completing draws and bridges, and in improving the condition of the road. A large gang of stone mason- are driving for ward the work at the high arches at Black stone two new bridges have been framed and wilbbe put in place next week over two highways between Wapoieand Norfolk, re placin, tho present dilapidated structures: new plat l onus have been laid at all stations where they were required, aud a new draw for the bridge over Fort Point channel will be completed about the middle of Novem ber. Two new engines have been purchased, and safety burners and non-explosive miner al sperm oil substituted for kerosene and the old fashioned lamps in the passenger cars. In all this progress and improvement the trustees have relied for funds solely on the earnings of the road.— Waterbury Ameri can. Masonry in the United States.—When aud where the order of Masonry was first in troduced into the United Statesappears to be a matter of some doubt, even among the best informed of the fraternity, and the fact that, prior to the year 1717, lodges were not compelled to keep any regular record, leaves no authemic data whereby to trace its origin. It is generally conceded, however, that Masonry iu the United States dates from the year 1733, when the right honorable aud most worshipful Anthony, Lord Y’iscount Montague, grand master of the g’ and lodge of England, on application of several brethren residing in New England, appointed and constituted the Right Worshipful Henry Price as provincial grand master over all the lodges in New England, who on the 30th of July, 1733, constituted Ihe first grand lodge of Freemasons ever opened on the American continent. This was known as St John’s grand lodge, which title it retained until it was united in 1792 with the grand lodge founded by the Earl of Dalhhousie, grand master of Scotland, of which Gen. Joseph Warren, who fell at the battle of Bunker Hill, was the first grand master. Henry Price was doubtless the first grand master in the United States. He was a successful dry goods merchant, and is generally looked upon as the father of Masonry in the United States. The order rapidly spread, and be fore the end of the last century a number of th States boasted of their grand lodges and grand commanderies. George Washington was a member of the Masonic fraternity for nearly half a century. Mr. Gray discovered a non-explosive illum inating fluid. To show how safe the new compound was, he invited a number of his friends to meet him in his rooms, whither he at once ^proceeded to stir with a red hot poker. As he went through the roof of his house, accompanied by his friends, he en deavorcd to explain to his nearest compan ion de voyage that the particular fluid in the barrel had too much benzine in it; but the gentleman said he had an engagement higher up, and could not wait for the explana tion. Mr. Gray continued his ascent till he met Mr. Jones, who informed him that there wos no necessity for him to go up higher, as everybody w’as coming down; so Mr. Gray started back, to be with the party. Mr. Gray’s widow offers for sale the secret for the manufacture of the non-explosive fluid at a reduced rate, as she wishes to raise money enough to buy a silver handled coffin, with a gilt plate, for the late Mr. Gray. A New Dodge.—The Troy Whig says: Last Saturday evening we noticed a boy about twelve years of age standing on Con gress street, with his fist in his eyes, weep ing bitterly Upon inquiry we learned from him that he had lost fifteen cents. Oc casionally he would look up, and whenever be saw a crowd of people coming towards him he would cry as though his heart would break. Quite a number asked him what he was crying about, and each time he would relate bow he had lost his fifteen cents. His loss would accordingly be made good to him, but after each good Samaritan had passed on, and as a new crowd, or some charitable looking gentleman or lady would approach, his grief would again overmaster him. Smart boy. Owing to a difference of opinion concern ing the pronunciation of a word, an anima ted prize-fight was instituted between the teacher and a scholar in a Georgia colored school. Mr. and Mrs William Bandel, an old Bal timore couple, who had been married over sixty-seven years, recently died suddenly «f paralysis within seven hours of each other. The editor of a country paper remarks that half the people who attend musical enter tainments in his town “don’t know the dis ference between a symphony and a sardine.” The Abbe Liszt, the great master of the piano and eminent musical composer, has just been granted letters of nobility and a pension of six thousand florins ($3,000) by the Hungarian government, and will live ha.aafter alternately at Waimar and Peath. Farragut’s Decision.—On the day when intelligence was received that the ordinance of secession had passed the Virginia Conven tion, Captain Farragut determined to abandon Norfolk and tho Mate. Collecting hastily a few valuables, lie placed his wife, sister, and their, children in a carriage, put his loaded pistols in his pocKet, and within two hours from the reception of the news that Virginia had decided to secede he proceeded to the Baltimore steamer, then at the wharf. Leav ing all else behind, he resolved not to be denationalized or tom from the Union he would know no country but that which he had loved and served from his childhood. The next day he passed through Baltimore, then in excited insurrection. The ordinary channels of travel by steamers and railroads were interrupted, and in the general confus ion it was difficult to procure means of trans portation or to leave the city. He found by accident that a common canal boat was leaving the wharf for Philadelphia. On this boat, which had indifferent accommodations for about eighteen persons, there were crowded nearly three hundred—fugitives, like himself and family, seeking refuge in the North. He reached New Y’ork after some annoyance and inconvenience, with but slight pecuniary means to sustain him self and his exiled and dependent family. Being on waiting orders—for the Depart ment, which did not then know these par ticulars, was moving with cautious, vigilant, and wary steps, careful and guarded whom to trust, and in the employment of Southern officers particularly circumspect—Captain Farragut felt his pecuniary resources insuffi cient for his support in the. great metropolis. Always modest and unobtrusive, and almost a stranger in New York, he found a resting place for a few days under the roof of a freind whom he had previously known, until he could obtain a secluded place out of the city, adapted to his limited means. He suc ceeded in getting a modest cottage at Hast ings on the Hudson at a nnt of $l5O per annum, which he plainly furnished, and to which, with one servant, he retired to awai* events—ready, however, and anxious to serve his country ami give himself to her cause. A Komanlic *tory. The Chicago papers just before the fire chronicled a romance in real life that hap pened in that city which is worthy the pea of a noveli t. It was a fine moonlight even ing when a yonng clerk might have been seen” musingly strolling down Wabash ave nue, whe’e now is all ruins, to his boarding house. Casting his eyes toward the lake, what was his surprise to see the figure of a lady, clad iu a white dressing gown, at the water's edge. As she was moving slowly towards the moist element, and was evident ly a somnambulist, the youth felt justified in interfering to prevent her from taking an unexpected bath. He therefore grasped her arm and awoke her from the trance. Com prehending the situation at once, she became extremely embarrassed, and blushingly al lowed her gallant attendant to escort her to her palatial residence near at band. So po litely and delicately did he conduct himself under the very peculiar circumstances that he produced a very favorable impression up on the young lady’s mind. Not long after ward they met at a party, but did not recog nize each other. They met again two or three times, and one evening it was his lot to accompany her home. They passed up the avenue, and to his great delight she paused before the same door to which he he had led the beautiful somnambulist. He could not resist an exclamation of surprise, and when she asked its cause and saw- his confusion, the whole affair suddenly flashed across her mind. Tableau. And now there is talk of a wedding. Stopped His Paper.—Many years ago, Mr. Swain, then editor of the Public Ledg er, was hailed at the corner of Eighteenth and Chestnut streets Dy a very excited indi vidual, who informed him in the most em phatic terms, I have stopped your paper sir,” and proceeded to explain the why aud wherefore, all the time gesticulating wildly. Aly gracious, sir, you don’t say so I Come with me to the office, and let us see if we cannot remedy the matter. It grieves me that any one should stop my paper.” Down Chestnut street to Third the two proceeded. Arriving at the office, Air. Swain ?said, Why,'my dear sir, everything seems to be going on here as usual I thought you had stopped my paper.” Then and there the ex: cited gentleman, whom the long walk, by the way, bad partly cooled, said that he had stopped taking his one copy of the Ledger. Air. Swain was profuse in his anologies for having misunderstood the meaning of Lis late subscriber’s words, and regretted that he had given him the tramp from Eighteenth street to Third, down Chestnut. The gen tleman went on his way home, a wiser if not a better man, marvelling at the stupidity of editors in general, and of Air. Swain in par ticular. Before be left, however, he or dered that the Ledger lie still sent to his ad dress. A young lady who escapeo from the burn ing city of Chicago, in the course of a graphic account of the great fire, tells the following “Two blocks beyond where 1 lived in Halstead street lived an old German, an almost helpless cripple, whose sole sup port was his wife and young son. The latter went away in the morning and did not return, ihe fire rapidly approached with deadly omen, and the old couple were not only dis tracted at the absence of the boy, but fear ful of their possible fate. At last the flames came so near that they must fly or die. In the strength of her affection the old woman seized the poor cripple, placed him upon her back, and thus staggered along for a distance of two blocks, when some men placed him in a grocer’s wagon and drew him to a place of safety.” Fall Plowing. Fall plowing is in season now, and may well be prosecuted with all energy until the ground freezes. Almost every farmer has time, or can make time, after the fall crops are in, to plow more or less, and it should be more, if possible. We are firmly persuaded that fall plowing is not only of great advantage to the crops, but by giving the farmer a start in spring enables him to accomplish in the busiest season of the year far more than he could otherwise do. Of course, on those soils where the earth packs, instead of becoming friable dur ing winter, breaking up must wait until spring. Like all other farm operations this requires judgment. A gentleman planted a row of fruit trees near a compost heap, the tree that stood nearest to it grew in one summer four feet eight inches one seven feet from it, two feet and a half one fifteen feet, grew four teen inches, while all the rest grew but seven inches That is probably about the growth all would have attained bnt for the compost heap. Thus it would seem that the influ ence of this fertilizer at the d’stance of fif teen feet was sufficient to double the ordinary grow th of a tree. If only fruit raisers would really believe these things and act ac cordingly, there would be few failures in this valuable crop. The grass is one of the greatest fruit robbers in our orchards. A man who had fought “mit” Sherman, was caught in one of the late Wisconsin prairie fires, with no means of building a back fire, so he imitated the gophers. Cut ting a huge sod with his bunting knife, he threw the dry dirt out till a hole sufficient for his body was made, when he crawled in and rolled the turf over him. He lay there until the fire passed over him, and was speed ing furiously on its way miles distant, then slowly he crawled out of his living grave, heated fearfully, bat injured iu no way whatever. An English lady of high rank, at the close of the war, asked Victoria, the crown prin cess of Prussia, to give to the wife, mother, or betrothed of the man in the German army most distinguished for a personal act of bra very, a certain cross of gold and jewels, in token of his achievement. •he investigation nas been going on ever since, and at last the honor falls upon Lieutenant Brandenburg, of the First lower Silesian infantry, who by his magnificent courage took the first cannon from the enemy at Woerth. The total German population of the Unl t*d State* i* set down at 1,080,583. The Man who Carried his Point. The following ridiculous story is told of a neighboring committee man. The evening before the day on which he was to pay an official visit to the school, his wife put a new ceiling in his pants, and accidentally left tho needle where she did the worlj. Arriving at the school he stiffly returned the salutation of the polite teacher, and ma jestically settled into the company chair.” It didn’t seetn to the most acute observer that he had but just touched the chaii, wheh he at once began to ascend. A wave of perplexed pain passed over his face, as his hand soothingly parted his coat tails. The look of bland surprise from the teacher drew from him the blushing explanation that he never could sit on a “cane seat.” A wooden chair was at once offered him, into which he dropped almost as swiftly as he got out of it again. The instant he struck on his feet, he shook his fist angrily in the face of the astounded tutor, and hoarsely shouting, I kin whip the pewser lanermus man what stuck the pin in them cheers,”he caught up his hat, and fled home. “Lor’, Eben!” exclaimed his wife as he tore into the house. What’s the matter with you Matter!” shouted the infuriated man as he snatched off bis coat and flung it out of the window, I have been made the fool of the entire district by that sneakin’ teacher,” and his Sunday hat flew through another window. Pins stuck inter my cheer as I was asettin down as onsupishus like as 1 am asettin down now in my own Lucretia he omniously howled, as he sprung out of that chair, and spasmodically went for the wounded part with both hands, “You’re foolin' with your best friend now, and he ain’t in the humor to stand the trflin.” In an instantfit flashed into the good lady's mind what tho trouble really was. In the next instant Eben’s nether garment was over her arm, and there— there in the midst of the repairs glistened ,the source of all the annoyance. The unfortunate man gave one brief stare at the evil thing, and falteringly remarked as he thought of the future. “I’d agin twenty dollars, Lucretia, if you hadn’t found it.” The last joke at the expense of the French Society for the Protection of Animals is to the following effect A countryman, armed with an immense club, presents himself be fore the president of the society aud claims the first prize. He is asked to describe the act of humanity on which he founds his claim. “I saved the life of a wolf,” replied the countryman. “I might easily have killed him with this bludgeon.” and he swings his weapon in the air, to the intense discomfort of the president. “But where was the wolf inquires the later what had he done to you “He had just devoured my wife,” is the reply. The president reflects an in stant and then says “Aly friend, I am of the opinion that you have been sufficiently rewarded.” “Two Eastern men who came to Chicago to see the ruins were in conversation yester day on the corner of Aladision and Alarket streets with a number of other persons about the terrible disaster. Dne of them expressed the greatest faith in Chicago’s enterprise and energy, and remarked in seeing new buildings springing up on every side “By gosh, Jim, «ve’d better take a hack and drive round the ruins right off, or Chicago ’ll be up before we know it, and we shan’t see anything.” The plucky way in which property holders have gone to work astonishes all visitors, thousands of whom have come to Chicago purposely to see the wreck of the once migh tj’ city.”— Chicago Journal. It is said that once, in a company of litcr erary gentlemen, Air. Webster was asked if he could l>e both God and man. “No, sir,” he replied, and ad led, “I should be ashamt d to acknowledge Him as my Savior if I could comprehend Him. If I could comprehend Him, Ho could be no greater than myself. Such is my sense of sin, aud consciousness of ray inability to save myself, that I feel I need a superhuman Savior, oue so great and glorious that I cannot comprehend Hinn” A young lady of Racine, Wie., died re cently to all appearance, and the necessary arrangements were made for the funeral. Just as the burial service commenced, how ever, a slight movement of thq body was noticed, and to the surprise and joy of her friends she opened her eyes and exhibited manifest signs of life. She finally recovered from her singular stupor, and is now enjoy ing the best of health. 1 am rich enough, says Pope to Swift, and can afford to give away a hundred pounds a year. I would not crawl upon the earth without doing a little good. I will enjoy the pleasure of what I give, giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it. When I die I should be ashamed to leave enough for a monument if there was a waiting friend left above ground. General Lemon arrived at St. Paul, Minn., from Fort Garry, on Wednesday evening, and reports intense excitement prevailing at VV innipeg on account of the recent gold dis covery at Lake Shebondawin. Specimens of dust, nuggets, and quartz have been brought to Winnipeg. Hundreds are rushing to the new gold fields. Religious Item*. .A clause permitting the taxation of church and charitable property exceeding $5, ft oo in value was one of the reasons of the defeat of the new constitution in Nebraska. The congregational churches in our State have too many stated supplies. They would be stronger and more thriving if a larger proportion of them had pastors. Ther is a “Mother in Israel,” living in Niles, Michigan, who is one hundred and nine years old. In a recent love-feast she declared that she had enjoyed religion one hundred years, and for that same period had been a member of the Methodist church. It is probable that she is the oldest church member of any denomination in the world. The German Catholics of Rome, N. Y., have recently had a split, and the more evan gelical party of the two has broken away from the Bishop and are building an Inde pendent Catholic church. At the laying of the corner stone, the 10th ult the Presby terian minister of the place was invited to make an address. A priest has been secured of the order of Dr. Doellinger. Panoramic. A western lady fainted when her bonnet caught fire. No wonder she felt light-head ed. Among the features of the Georgia Fair will be a mule that can trot a mile under three minutes. Several cadets have been discharged from the Military Academy by the Secretary of Wai for treating with violence and harassing other cadets. In a libel suit against a newspaper at Lit tie Rock, Ark., for $30,000, the plaintiff ob tained $1 in damages. The Crosby Opera House, destroyed in Chicago, had just been decorated, newly seated and fitted up, at an outlay of SBO,- 000 It is said that one of the richest men in Chicago, who lost nothing by the fire, feels that he is the poorest of its citizens. Solon Robinson, the agricultural philoso pher of the Tribune before Horace Greeley tried his hand, was recently divorced from his wife in an Indiana circuit court, on ap plication of the lady herself. He abandon ed her twenty years ago. Were every man, woman and child in the country to give one per cent, of what they will spend this month for things they can do without and hardly miss them, the amount would rebuild Chicago in all Its material prosperity—how man? times over 1 PAYABLE IIST ADVAN CE WHOLE NO. 85 State Items. The Grand Duke Alexis will visit Bridge port. A Waterbury man has raised a twenty pound turnip. A boy only 15 years old and weighing 310 pounds, is visiting friends in New Ha ven. Willis Steadman, ot Branford, while ploughing recently, found an old pine tree shilling, dated 1652. It appears possible that Whittaker, the man who was assaulted in Meriden, will re cover from his wound. The dry goods stolen from Miles Beards ley’s store in Trumbull, were found secreted under a barn in Bridgeport. The New Haven town debt amounts.to sl4 for each inhabitant, while hi Hartford it amounts to $42 a head. Charles B. Hawley, the Bridgeport man whose legs were recently taken off by the Housatonic cars, is going to get well. The old Farmington church, built ir 1771, is now in its centennial year. It is said that the original shingles are now on the roof. An insane girl, fifteen years of age, was found m Hartford, Monday, and restored to her mother, who took her to her home in Killingly. Wm. Hopkins of Newtowp, explained his drunkenness to a Bridgeport court, by stating that he couldn’t carry as much liquor as when he was young. A young hein ss at the Farmington Semin ary, who was the possessor of half a million two weeks ago, was reduced to absolute p-jve>ty by the Chicago fire. The well known stallion, General Sheri dan, died suddenly in Stepney on the 22d. He was valued at $6,00C, and might have developed into a $25,000 animal. A sad and fatal accident occurred in Terry ville on Sunday week. A little girl four years of aire, Jennie Gaylord, was found dead, a large portable c.upooard having fal len over upon her. Mrs. Eliza Potter, of Bethlehem, aged 66, was found dead, on Sunday morning, lying beside her bed. She had been unwell for some time, and is supposed to have died in an apopletic fit. A building known as “the old stone fac tory,” was burned in Bridgeport Wednesday morning, by an incendiary. It was owned by P. T. Barnum, w’ho offers ss<>o for the detection of the party who filed it A mortar abd pestle, of bell metal, used by Benedict Arnold when a clerk with Dan iel and Dr. Joshua Lathrop, at Norwich Town, are now in the possession of Boswell Huntington of Norwich and in daily use." The Housatonic Water Company at An sonia have leased ground and water to Wil kinson Bros., of that place, who will at once put up two large mills for the manufac ture of manilla paper. Capital $125,000 Mr. R. Vining, proprietor of the Birmin bam Hotel, shot an enormous Wild Cat, on White Hills, about four miles west of this place, on Monday of this week. It was an ugly looking customer, and weighed 48 pounds. Charles R. Thomas, a machinest ot Stam ford, has presented the editor of the Advo cate with a circle of silver the size of a three cent piece, on which he has engraved the Lord’s prayer twice, and so handsomely that it can be easily read with the naked eye. Three of the prominent men connected with thelOneida Community, were in Bridge port Monday, to consult with Mr. ^Bradley H. Hull with reference to the construction os a dam across the Quinnipaug river at W al lingford, with the view of erecting a large silk mill. Robert Gibson, an Irishman, aged 45, em ployed in the rubber factory of L. Candee Co., New Haven, was caught Tuesday be tween a huge iron and a smaller wooden rol ler, at the bottom of one of the milting, ma chines, and crushed to death before assist ance could be rendered. The body was hor ribly mangled. Gibson leaves a wife and five grown up children. No substantial clue has yet been obtained to the Woodbury' burglary. Rev. Murray of Boston, has bought a horse of Sherman Woodruff, of Washington, for S6OO. An incendiary tire destroyed the barn be longing to Mrs. Julia Lockwood, in Norwalk, Saturday. Keyser, temporarily of New York, is very sick at his Norwalk residence, in consequence of the “recent excitement.” Redding with a population of not quite two thousand has three deaf men who have never been run over by the cars. The father of little Jennie Gaylord who was killed by a cupboard falling upon her, has attempted to remove his grief byinking his life. Widow Emma Douglass, of Westport, aged 89 years, who keeps house for her son, has recently made a hundreds pounds of but ter in a month, and twelve cheeses, besides doing all the housework for herself and son, who comprise the whole family. She also made two coverlids one week. She has been for more than sixty years a worthy member of the Congregational chur:h in Westport, and is a very diligent reader of the Bible, which she reads daily in small print without the use of glasses. A well-informed writer says that more than 150,000 acres of the best timber in America are cut every year to supply the demand for railwav sleepers alone. A daughter of K. A. Hathaway of Hart ford arose in her sleep, a few nights ago, and, raising a window in the second story, stepped out and fell to the ground. She was considerably bruised but escaped without broken bones. According to the returns made to the Bu reau of Statistics, the total number of immi grants arriving at the port of New York du ring the months of July and August last was 50,145, of whom 29,692 were males and 20^- 156 females. A singular accident occurred in the streets of London recently. A huge steam roller was left standing in the street, while the careless engineer v ent to dinner. Some mischievous hoys got upon it, and by some means managed to start it. The damage done was considerable, the machine demol ishing a large show window-, and otherwise injuring the building into which it ran. A paper, which doesn’t like Paducah, Kv., says: A Paducah man—a very liberal Padu cah man—contributed a ten cent fractional note to the Chicago aid fund yesterday. He will probably boast of the munificent contri bution all his life. He will have good reason to do so, since he has contributed ten cents more thau any other Paducahan. C. T. Yerkes, jr. the defaulting stock broker of Philadelphia, has been held in $50,000 for a further hearing, on the com plaint of Henry Huhn, President of the Common Council, charging him with em bezzlement and larceny. In Woonsocket, R. 1., on Wednesday even ing, Michael Hearne attempted to shoot of ficer H. M. Pierce with a double barreled gun. One cap was snapped, when the gun was seized by the officer and broken in the struggle. Hearne is in jail. The last unrecognized victim of the Revere railroad disaster has been identified as Mrs. Locke, aged 55, of Lowell. She loft Lowell to visit relatives in Lynn, and while her friends in Lowell supposed she was in Lynn, her relatives in Lynn were not aware she had left home. Corporation property valued at $5,000,- 000 was destroyed by the Chicago fire The Chicago Relief and Aid Society, in reply to inquiries, announce that for the preservation of the health of the forty thousand people under their charge beans, potatoes, onions and straw beds are most urgently needed. The New York city creditors having noth ing else to do, are forming themselves*into delegations for the purpose of visiting the deputy controller to demand their pay. In each case he is obliged to assure them that they shall have justice at once, and money when it is available. Vicinity Items.