Connecticut western news., 1873-11-21
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The whole business portion of the town of Reno, Nevada, has been burned.
 It is said that new penal code, by which the death penalty is abolished, will be introduced by the Italian Gov ernment.
 The Indians near Omaha are said to have contracted a singular habit of chewing putty instead of tobacco or gum.
 A curious animal has been captured near Tulare, Gal. It looks like bear, but has no front legs, and walks upright like man.
 Every person in Brennerville, Tenn, has died of yellow fever, and not a man woman nor child is left to perpetuate the towns existence.
 It has been definitely ascertained that sixty-six lives were lost by the sinking of the Intransigente vessel, Fernando ct Catolico.
 The Boston and Albany Railroad re- gently retired six of its conductors, who were buying diamond pins and race horses on salary of $S0 month.
 A Trenton (N. J.) woman dreamed of being surrounded by missing snakes, Huu Hl6 bbEuCh OuJ W1bh 0uCu IOICo uo to break her arm against the bed post.
 There is a time at which lamb be- comes mutton there is a time at which the mint sauce of filtration has to be discarded for the currant jelly of serious intentions.
 1t is said that bar of iron worth five dollars is worth, when manufactured into horse-shoes, $10 50; table knives, $1S0; buttons and buckles, $4, ,035; springs of watches, $200, ,000.
 It is said that the Pennsylvania Rail- road Company, having now 9 complete through line, will send passengers from New York to New Orleans in sixty-four hours, without change of cars.
 There is nothing pleasanter, when in tho declining years of life, than to have the boy who used to catch all the fish and find all the berries, come to you for the loan of half dollar. Time works it's revenges. .............. ,.
 The vexed question whether the Jews in Germany can be compelled to appear before magistrate if summoned to at- tend on the Sabbath, has once more been brought on the tapis and decided in the affirmative. .......# :.l..r.
 Whittier, one of the purest and sweetest poets in the English tongue, has the barest competency for his bachelorship, and any where, save in New England, would be regarded as only round the corner from penury.
 California farmers are up in arms against what they term the suqirrel nuisance, and at @ convention held in San Francisco recently, they demanded some legislative enactment that would result in exterminating the pest.
 An old farmer said to his sons:- "Boys, don't you ever spekerlate or wait for something to turn up. You might just as well go and sit down on a stone in the. middle of a medder with 0 pail 'twixt your legs, and Wait for COW to back up to you to be milked."
 Last spring MT. Sam Hemphill, of Warsaw, Ind, slipped a small potato over the end of @ grapevine which he had trimmed in order to keep it from bleeding. The potato sprouted and grew all summer, and the shoots it sent forth are neither grape nor potato vines, but have peculiar look and formation of their own. ,s.... .... ..........
 As part of the history of the ravages of the scourge in Memphis, the fate of the inmates of boarding-hou is given. The landlord is Joe Sanford, whose family consisted of wife and two children In his house were IS boarders. Of all these there were only Joe Sanford and one boarder who sur vived; all the rest (20) died.
 At an early hour, 9 man standing. on & wharf at Cincinnati observed dog swimming around in a circle in the river. The observer vert to rescue the dog, and discovered pear him the body of man who, as the Coroner's inquest proved, had committed suicide. He had been the dogs owner, and the latter chung to his master to the last. A tragic love story comes from San Francisco. One Burque, policeman, has just committed suicide in that city. He was man of some ability and had rich sister in Russia-a nobleman's wife who had sent for him to go there, but he was in love with San Francisco girl and would not leave her. Her parents refused consent to the marriage and he settled the matter by killing himself.
 Gentlemen" said an auctioneer, is the most delightful land. It is the easiest land to cultivate, it is so light, so very light. MT. Parker here will corroborate my statement, he owns the next patch, and he will tell you how easy it is worked" "Yes, gentlemen" said MT. Parker, cit is very easy to work, but it is plaguey sight easier to gather the crops"