Connecticut western news., 1872-10-04

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 A CALIFORNIA JUDGES DILEMMA. Vallego (Cal) Chronicle relates the fol- lowing A lawyer of this city, whom, not to mention any names, we will call Judge o.. got into very amusing pre- dicament yesterday. A woman, whose husband had been sentenced for misde- meanor to term in the County Jail, ap- peared in one of our Courts with three small children at her heels, and begged his honor to have her better half re- leased, urging that she was destitute and knew not how to feed her children or herself while he was in prison. The Court assured the woman of it's inability to help her in the matter, and referred her to Judge o., who was present. As the latter person had secured her hus- bands conviction, the woman thought that he could also procure his pardon, and was therefore D,uch confounded when he, too, told her that the thing couldn't be accomplished. "Well," she calculated, half despondingly, half re- signed, eff you won't do that, you'll have to keep these young ones until his time is out, for I've got nothing to feed lem on." The Judge thought the mat ter good joke until he started to leave the office, when the woman told her lit tie blessings to Ego along with the gens tlemau, children" The little cherubs were obedient, and followed their newly constituted father with as much affec- ton as if they had been part of his own bone and flesh. The Judge was in a dilemma the children stuck like burrs, and no way offered of getting rid of them. He finally effected a compromise by offering the woman sack of four in consideration of her ''calling her chil- dren off" and again assuming guardian ship.
 COAL BEDs.-If the coal beds of the earth should ever become exhausted it is possible that these sources of supply may be replaced by new beds rising from the bottom of the seas. Indeed something of the kind is now actually occurring. The island of Newfoundland which contains 1000 square miles, and has population of 100, ,O00, is joined by banks or shoals much larger than the island itself. It is on these banks that the cod fisheries are so extensively pur- sued. The Grand Bank is 600 miles long by 200 broad. Now it has been conclu- sively shown that the whole island is rising from the sea, and in the course of time may be expected to join it's banks, which are also rising. Great seams of coal, which are pronounced inexhausti- ble, have been discovered in Newfound- land, and there is no reason to doubt that these seams also extend under the banks. So it appears that in one case at least coal beds are now coming to the surface from the depths of the ocean, and it is not improbable that similar forces may be producing similar results in other parts of the world.
 HORST DISEASES. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Press calls attention to fact which seems of sufficlent impor tance not to be lost sight of. From careful study of the diseases peculiar to horses, he claims to have good reason to know that in the large cities of the country most of the deaths among these animals have resulted from drinking in the public fountains. "Every old dis eased horse drinks out of them," says the writer; "I have seen Q half pint of corruption left in the basin after such horse had taken drink !; and imme- di.tely afterward I have seen fine horse drink from the same basin-drink what was little better than poison" In this city the very best of the trotting cattle are often watered at public troughs, and the only wonder is that diseases thus contracted are not more common. --N r. Paper.
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