Connecticut western news., 1871-08-18
GENERAL NEWS.


 An artesian we'll has been sunk over half mile deep at Cohoes, N. '.
 Mrs. Stanton cannot be made to believe that the big trees of California were made in six days.
 An Illinois widow was recently tarred and feathered for playing croquet before her husbands funeral.
 The young ladies of Saratoga say they have Irrigated themselves when they have qusffed the waters of the spring.
 Baron Blum, one of Morrissey's dea. lers at his Saratoga clubhouse, comes from one of the wealthiest families of Den. mark
 A woman at Eauclaire, Wis, lately bit her husbands ear off and then called him a tough cuss." She probably knew.
 The Witness, New York's religious daily, has nominated Henry Ward Beecher for president, and believes that he is the man to hold the national helm.
 Parepa- Rosa's new English opera con- pany contains as assistant prima donna, Madam Vanzini. daughter of sgnor Blilz. the famous Philadelphia illusionis;.
 Arthur Hildreth, son of the historian, returned from Europe, recently, where he had been for the last ten years, during which time both of his parents died abroad
 Joe Davidson, pedestrian, and native of Arkansas, has undertaken to walk four days and nights and four hours over, with out eating or sleeping.
 The late Mrs. Margaret Kalbfus, of Bal timore, left all but SPA, ,OO0 of her estate, valued at $l50, 900, to the Humane Impar- tial society and the Aged Woman's home of that city. -.-
 Lord Courtensy has achieved an indeb- tedness scarcely less than that of his lord'y boon-companion, the duke of Hamilton. He was declared bankrupt, with debts ex- ceeding $4,ll5,O GOO.
 The Waumaudee valley, Wis, is royal place for venison, the deer there being so thick that the farmers stuff cid clothes into rude semblance of humanity to keep the ACStAuCLltO 6ulndLS Oub OI LuClT
 A new style of sacque for street wear is of light colored cashmere, braided or en- broidered with floss silk shade or two darker. The fringe IS composed of little balls of silk of two colors, and the sleeves are made quite large.
 Dr. Duvall, who is serving out a life sentence in the Waupun (Wis. ) prison for murdering his wife, is supporting his daughter by writing religious music, his last composition. ''The Beautiful Band, J having just been published.
 Where now shall consumptives turn for dry afr The rapidly increasing popula- ton of Minnesota, by destroying the timber and tilling the prairies, have so changed the climate of that state that its remedial efficacy is exceedingly doubtful.
 Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain has posted herself at Tronville-sur-mer, France, with no prospect of speedily making herself scarce, and Amadeus, who is on a visit to the eastern provinces of his kingdom, isn't pleased at her propinquity.
 What guilty secret can be troubling the conscience of the French minister of finance? He can not bear to be alone in his carriage moment. If he finds him self SO he invites the first person he sees even though it be blouse, to get in with him.
 d new suggustion in the way of inex- pensive travel could have been borrowed from party of excursionists who recently passed through Georgia on their way to Columbia, Ala, working their passage at the rate of 40 miles day on four-wheeled velocipedes.
 This reminds us cheerfully of the cider and butternut tales of our Pilgrim ances- tors: Ephraim Smith of Denton county, Tex, was recently killed with his wife and children by the Indians, the children being roasted and eaten by the red skinned can nibals.
 A set of furniture just sent from Europe for private house up town in New York, is of black ebony, covered with the bright est shade rose colored satin, with the mono 6A0A44 HI WuiLG on L00 DaCk or each chair and center of the sofa.
 Anew way of hanging oil-paintings is to have large blocks of wood at the back of the frame to prevent their touching the wall, so that the air can circulate through the back, and prevent the painting being injured by dampness, or blistered by the heat from the chimney or fues.
 ROME, August 13.-An encyclical letter has been issued by the Pope urging the faithful offer ot prayer for the freedom of the Holy See, and the triumph and tran quility of the church. The official Gazette publishes decree appropriating for public use two convents and three plots of ground in Rome, belonging to religious bodies Signor sella, Minister of Finance, is op- posed to fresh supply of rations.
 During thunder shower last Tuesday afternoon the schooner Adria from Nova Scotia, bound to New York, loaded with piles, capsized in the Sound about six miles south of the New Haven light. The crew clung to the rigging and We're soon taken off by passing schooner.
 The Catholic diocese comprising the States of Connecticut and Rhode Island is to be divided and Bishop Mcfarland placed over that of Connecticut. The candidates for the newly created Bishoperic of Rhode Island, whose names have been forwarded to Rome for election, are Rev. Dr. Hen dricken, Rev. Mir. Hart, of St. Patrick's Church, New Haven; and Rev. James Hughes, at present Vicar-General of the Dioceses and located in Hartford.
 The Register says: ''not long since, the pipe opening the airbrake on the early