Connecticut western news., 1872-12-13
Facts and Fancies.
Horses are dying of lung fever in

Horses are dying of lung fever in Iowa
 A woman in Quincy, Ill has got one thousand dollars for the repair of her in jured affections.
 Of the g graves owned by Newton, Kansas, 31 are occupied by persons kill ed by crime or accident, +a
 The Mexican Congress has assembled and proclaimed Lerdo de Tejada unani- mously elected President of the Repub- 1 lie. .. ss-...,. Another boat of the ill.fated steamship Missouri has arrived safely at Nassau, with the first assistant engineer and four others on board.
 The pew-holdersi of the Old South | Church, in Boston, have voted to leas @ the church to the Government for a Post Office.
 | The contributions for the relief Of the sufferers by the fire, received by the Treasurer of the fund in Boston, amount to $14O,005 52. .......
 According to General Myers report of the operations of the U. s. Signal Service Department during the past year 70 per cent of the predictions have been verified
 The census of 1870 returned popu- lation of 63.254 Chinese within the limits of the United States. The num- hcr has now been increased to about 9O,O00.
 Strain is a ridiculous word. When it stands for song it means Sound. When it stands for strain it means Unsound. It may have sound sonse, but 1t has q deal of nonsense about 1t too. 
 The German Government has promised to give all the moral and diplomatic aid in its power to that of England in the efforts of the latter to suppress the slave trade on the Eastern coast of Africa,
 The exodus from italy to the United States has lately become so great that Sgnor Lanza, the Minister of the Interior, has written to the projects of the pro- vinces to inquire into the causes of it. ~
 Ayoung ladv was recently married in Worcester country town who declared that cone half the pleasure of the event was destroyed by seeing her name printed in the local paper Mehitable Smith," ..l... 7,b
 The New York Tunes states that l39 homicides have been committed in New York city since January 1st, 1870, and i'll SIX of these cases the murderers com mitted suicide immediately after the murder. 3Ft s&
 There has been fight between the Spanish troops and the Cuban insurgents at Retire, in the Eastern Department, in which five Spaniards were killed and eight wounded. The losses of the Cubans are not given. ...,...,.
 Six months imprisonment has been awarded at Manchester (Englaudl Guar ter Sessions to Postal Telegraph clerk who intercepted and turned to his prl- vate advantage the contents of betting message passing through his hands. :.'
 The New Haven Palladium says :"Our Shaker friends arc seriously agitated on the subject of matrimony. The younger brethren and sisters are tired of celbacy, but the elders tell them If they want to marry they must leave the community.
 The Mobile Register says that as soon as Sergent Bates gets through his present engagement, we'll bet him what he chooses that he can't put on sivers dress and walk under water from Dover to Calais, carrying the American flag. t..sr.. VI
 Indianapolis boasts of leading con tractor who can neither read nor write, and who does not know onc figure from another, yet can accurately estimate the number eff brick for a wall, or shingles for roof, of given dimensions and the cost of construction. .ss srs s-..
 Sage-green kid gloves are ruinous to the hands, by reason of the poisoning coloring matter used in their manufac- ture, but they will be very generally worn this winter for all that. They Mre 'sthe thinc, you know" and who ever heard of Fashion giving precedence to Hygiene #....--a eaI .. .-aa
 The Hartford Courant shows that Hartford was Q larger loser, in propor- tion to her population, by the Chicago and Boston fires than those cities them selves. l While they got back portion of their loss in insurance, the loss of Hartford, which pays such large share of insurance, is without compsnsat'on.
 This is a Danbury Neaos item "An inebriated stranger precipitated himself down the depot stairs, and, on striking the landing, responsibility apostrophized himself with If you'd been wantin' to come down stairs, why'n thunder didn't you say so, you wooden headed old fool, and I'd come with you and showed you the way.'"
 In the suit brought against the Seventh Avenue Railroad Company of New York, by the widow of Avery D. Putnam, who was killed by William Foster, the jury after an absence of five minutes returned verdict for the full claim of S5,O0O damages against the Company, for neglect ot their employees in not having done. all all in their power to prevent the murder.