Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27
SORCS.
A Memphis paper defines advertising to be a blister which draws customers.

Memphis paper defines advertising to be a blister which draws customers.
 A reporter writing up a wreck at sea | said that no less than forty unfortunates bit the dust.
 A Florida bride made a mistake and handed the conductor her marriage certifi- cate in place of her ticket.
 The new hundred dollar greenback will soon Dc in circulation. it will have hearty welcome, irrespective of party.
 ''They fired two shots at himm," wrote an Irish reporter, ''the first shot killed him, but the second was not fatal.
 A colored man in North Carolina pulled mules tail 10 show his docility. His funeral sermon was an hour and half long.
 In Massachusetts forty per cent. of the population are depositors in savings banks the aggregate being 56l, ,2Ol out of total of only l, ,457 ,OOo inhabitants.
 A chicago paper announces that the re- receipt of another ship load of blackberries from St. Joe yesterday created a percepti ble ripple in the toothpick trade.
 A stroke of lightning accomplished the destruction of l,76o gallons of whiskey in an Indiana town, few days since, but an eye witness says it was pretty even tus- sle between the two.
 An old lady gave this as her idea of a great mau: "One who is keerful of his clothes, don't drink sperits, ken read the bible without spelln the words; and eat a cold dinner on wash day without grum- bling"
 Dr. Livingston writes that the deep in terest shown by the Americans in his well fare awukens a hope in his breast that he may be spared to come to this country and start saloon in New York. A Missouri gentleman, sixty four years ot age, escheWs newspapers. A few days ago he was in St. Louis and was swindled out of one hundred and fifty dollars by one of the oldest confidence dodges on record.
 An indulgent Kansas parent sold his cooking stove for $1l Tn order to take his thirteen children 10 the circus He says 8 circus comes only two or three times q year, and besides, he never had much to cook on the stove, anyhow.
 The Griffin, (Ga.) News reports new style of female regulator. A man went to work to set his family to rights, and ac | oordiOolv 1yb;ppod L;s u,;fa har o;otor h;e sister, and his mother in law, and at last accounts was hunting for more of the fam fly.
 A grocer being solicited 10 contribute tc the building of new church, promptly subscribed his naIae to the paper in the following eccentric manner: John Jones (the only place in town where you can ge eleven pounds of good sugar for dollar 25 cents.
 The following pathetic item, clipped from Western paper, tells it's own story
 "Miss Lamphire, of Casco, Mich, who de lighted to torment her mother with tn,
 sight of a gun, is now bathed in grief be
 yond description. Her mother has thre, IphySlclanS and cannot live. An unknown man who was lying on th
 track of the Air Line railroad, at q cross ing about two miles below Middletown on Monday afternoon, was struck by a pas
 senger train and thrown some ten or fifteel :, feet from the rails, He was picked up il
 an insensible condition aud removed t
 Middlefeld. where surgical aid was sum
 moned. He was poorly clad and it believed that it was his intention to com
 init suicide.