Connecticut western news., 1871-07-21
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
 Tie up your grape vines.
 Georgia is being flooded. ...
 Utica fears butter plethora.
 Green corn is sold in York, Pa.
 Peter Cooper is seriously i'll.
 The weather IS grand for cabbages.
 Woodcock shooting has commenced.
 There are 40 signs for predicting rain.
 Mississippi teachers get $7O month.
 Georgia snobs wear imperial" eyebrows.
 A frog rain in Arizona is roughly repor ted
 Ants are eating Tennessee's corn of the cob.
 A religious intelligence office, gratifes New Haven.
 Detroit has an anti-peddler door-bell, with six barrels.
 Corpus Christi, Texas, has voted aid to the ship Channel.
 Nilsson is fixing up the furbelows for her wedding in October.
 In the statistics of beer guzzling Massa- chusetts comes sixth.
 Rogers. the sculptor, is to boss Detroit's soldier monument
 Wichita county, Texas, turns up an ar row head of virgin god.
 It costs five dollars to tie tin box to a dogs tail in Lumpkin, Ga.
 The Germantown Chronicle observed the 4th with .sdouble-sheet."
 A number of young girls have started paper at Brinton, Pa. They do their own type-setting.
 The Princess Louise of Lorne and her husband, the Marquis, are to visit Canada and the United States, next autumn.
 The woman's medical college. of Phila- delphia is twenty-one years old. It was the first female medical college in the world
 The national debt of France now ex- ceeds six thousand millions of dollars. It is the largest national debt in the world.
 Steam engines in England consume eigh- teen millions of tons of coal year, and create thereby force equal to an army of producers eighty millions strong.
 The labor-saving machines of this country are estimated to have wealth. h.producing force equal to the combined power of a nation of 22o, 900, 900 laboring men.
 A daughter of New York stock-broker exults over the fact that she has been to Europe six times and has never seen the inside of her mothers kitchen.
 One of the Siamese twins has deaf and dumb daughter at an asylum in Raleigh, N. C.. and her teachers report that she is one of the brightest pupils in the institution.
 The French steamer Souvenance has been wrecked on the African coast, and one hundred and fifty bodies have been washed ashore from the wreck.
 There are five railroad kings in this country that control railroad property amounting to $500, ooo. 900, yielding gross annual income of about $lOO, ,O0O, 900. This Is an immense concentration of monetary power.
 The total indebtedness of the State of Con- necticut April 1st, 1871, was $5, ,so4, ,6l0, ,9a, against $6, ,560, ,304, 95 at the same period last year. The entire revenue for the year from all sources was $I, ,926, 9s3. .o9. The school fund of the state amounts to $2,- 04S, 375, ,62.
 The imports of cotton into the United Kingdom from September lst, 1870, to May 4th, 1871. were S,24o,I7I bales, of which l,7s4, ,672 bales were of American production. For the corresponding period of the previous year the imports amounted to 2, ,45s. .o96 bales.
 In 1850 the railway mileage in this country was about 5000, and now it is about 55, GOO miles, or one-third of the rail- way mileage of the world. At the end of the present decade we shall reach not less than 75, 900 miles of railway, with a car rying capacity of s75, ,000, 900 tuns per annum.
 A girl in Cincinnati became so attached to Cat that she could not bear to have the animal out of her sight Her father at last became disgusted at the girls conduct and killed the cat, which act so afflicted the daughter that she took poison and out lived her favorite only twenty-four hours. ,. The legal rate of interest in Kansas is l2 per cent. If 8 note goes to protest for non-payment,, the law allows six per cent damages on the whole amount and if the note be collected by suit. then the maker must pay all the legal costs, and the char ges of the holders lawyer into the bargain. This is pretty stiff regime for money borrowers.
 One of the ':big trees" in Californla has recently been felled to the ground, and 1900 annular circles between the heart and inner bark were counted, showing the tree to have been 12oo years growing. Other trees of much larger diminsions are still standing, and younger and smaller trees of the same variety are now vigorously grow ing in the same vicinity.
 A man in Brattleboro, Vt, was recently urged by an insurance agent to take out policy for the benefit of his wife to the amount of $5,00O. Before deciding he asked his wife's opinion, when she re- marked with charming frankness 'sWhy, my dear, you will of course act according to your own judgement; but, in case of your decease, it would make me rather more desirable widowi"
 The English journals and perodicals are particularly strong on geography. Dur ing the war BEGekUo0d's Magazine an- nounced that the division line between the Confederacy and the United States would be ''that range of mountains which rises near Harper's Ferry, in Virginia, and