Connecticut western news., 1873-03-21
Items of Interest.

her. An Iowa man who recently starved his wife to death, has been hung by @ vigilance committee.
 Prussia proposes to substitute for the jury system a mixed court consisting of three judges and four laymen.
 Prince Albert is to officiate at the opening of the Vienna Exhibition as President of the English Commission.
 Lord Lindsay is organizing private astronomical expedition to observe the transit of Vensus from the Island of Mauritius.
 A hog in Iowa that was buried in the snow nearly six weeks came out alive, but was reduced in flesh from 2C0 pounds to 50.
 An Illinois man whose wife eloped with young fellow, captured the pair, fogged the fellow and sent the wife home to her mother.
 Mrs. Betsy Walworth of Lowell, Mass, was found dead with her head submerged in tub of water, in which she had been washing clothes. .
 The Duke of Richmond sets the price of G500, 900 on his house at Charring Cross, which stands in the way of cer- tain proposed street improvements.
 Forty-six of the new U. s. Senators are lawyers five are interested in rail roads; four are farmers; three are phy- sicians; two are journalists two clergy | men.
 The vital statistics of New York City for last week show that there have been 51O deaths, 234 marriages, 409 births, and 40 still births. This is about an average. A. 't'a
 An exchange having said: aThe first robin has been seen; but one robin doesn't make spring." the Auburn Bulletin retorts "Try him with bug and see." t.t..,e.
 Somebody who has been studying our weights" reports that, upon the average, boys at birth weigh little more and girls little less than six pounds and half.
 A member of the English House of Commons inquired whether the Ameri- can Government intends to remit the surplus of $2,5O0, 900 over their actual losses, which they are reported to have received through the Geneva award.
 The bill prohibiting the sending of obscene literature through the mails, and for other purposes, was passed by the U. s. Senate as amended by the House. It was enrolled and signed by the President, and is exceedingly strin- gent.
 The tender passion often gets man into serious trouble. A horse thief in Kansas lately put the vigilance commit tee on his track by writing love letter which fell into their hands and the next day his body swung from the limb of a tree.
 The U. s. House Committee on Ap- propriations agreed to non-concur in the Senate amendment to the Post Of- flee Appropriation bill, forbidding the transmission of all free matter, so far as the same affects exchanges among news papers. ...
 The tunnel under Mont St. Gothard, has advanced four hundred feet into the heart of the mountain, and in the course of few years the famous mountain pass, which has so long been one of the grand est gateways of the world will be render ed useless.
 A farmers daughter recently married a "wealthy and respectable" travelling agent, on short acquaintance. He has just left her with a note advising her not to fall in love with strangers here after. That man evidently has some solid ideas.
 The British House of Commons lately called on Mr. Gladstone for an explana- tion of the story that the United States had obtained a large sum in excess of actual losses at Geneva. MT. Gladstone denied the statement, which was re- ceived with cheers.
 A schoolboy's toast: '' The Girls May they add charity to beauty, sub tract envy from friendship, multiply genial affections, divide time by indus try and recreation, reduce scandal to its lowest denominations, and raise virtue to it's highest power"
 A Tennessee belle lately punished a suitor who sought to gain her hand through false aspersion of his rival, by going with him to the altar, and then responding "no" at the most critical moment, and completing the marriage ceremony with the calumniated one.
 A man recently broke off 8 marriage because the lady did not possess good conversational powers. Acynical friend, commenting on the fact, says: He should have married her, and refused her a new bonnet, and he would have discovered her conversational powers Y There is in New York City profess sional sfacemaker" who sits as model for the artist who manufactures gro- tesque masks for carnival times. The fexibility of his features is said to be so wonderful that,s if necessary, he could delude the recognition of the smartest detective. A Frenchman has invented respira- tory contrivance, a sort of mouth trap, by which miners can defy for time the suffocating effect of choke damp. The nostrils are closed by a sort of spring, 8 can containing the air IS fas- tened to the back, and rubber tube leads it to his mouth.
 } An agent who went to the east coast of South America to investigate the rumors of gold discoveries, returned to Salt Lake, recently, and some of the leading mine operators and capitalists of that city left suddenly for New York, few days afterwards, in consequence l; of misrepresentations
 In an English church, recently, after the publication of the banns of mar riage by the minister, a grave elder, in stentorian voice, forbade the banns between certain couple. On being called upon for an explanation, "Ihad, he said, pointing to the intended bride, CT had intended Hannah for myself. His reason was not considered sufficient. Here is an item worthy of more than Q casual reading: Prof Lawes of Eng, land has plot of experimental meadow to which IA tons of stable manure has been applied each year since 1843 Plants grown on this surface have ab ] sorbed all the rain water, so that little or none has been discharged by under, l ,dn,. a Inart O1