Connecticut western news., 1873-12-19
Items of Interest.


 Motto for the winter of 1S73-4: CT can't afford it"
 The Jersey City Y. M. 0. A. have opened restaurant for the relief of the poor, where meal will be provided for five cents.
 The Court of Appeals at Albany adopted memorial in honor of the late Judge Peckham, who was lost on the Vile du Havre.
 There are said to be twenty-five hun- dred deserters from the United States regular army, scattered throughout the Western country.
 A plan has been submitted to the President for collective exhibition by the Executive Departments, at the Gen. tennial Exhibition.
 If California winners can make profit in selling their wine at thirty cents gallon, how do the poor agents live who sell it at SIS dozen?
 A girl at Vienna, Indiana, lately swallowed wasp, which stung her in the throat, and she died from suffoca- tion on account of the swelling.
 "Yes, sir when man in Louisiana finds stranger in his hogpen he has a right to shoot that stranger down." is the decision of Louisiana judge.
 A philosopher says that Ga true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easi- ly as star"
 Miss Sarah Savage, of Portland, wants $5, ,0O0 from her mistress, who injected vitriol into the optic as Sarah was peeping through the key hole of the parlor door.
 The Arnay and NdUy Journal lifts up its voice in behalf of more humane re- lations between officers and men in the army, and the mitigation of soldiers hardships, so far as the close attention of officers can avail.
 The Hoosac Tunnel was completed by the blowing of hole five feet wide through fifteen intervening feet of rock. The last blast was fired at two in the afternoon. The. affair was cele- brated by festivities.
 An American gentleman of "collegiate and professional education," "highiy recommend" advertises in the Wash ington Chronicle that he will give $1, ,000 to obtain any Government position at salary of $1 ,600 or over.
 "Grace Greenwood writes of the late John O. Henan, that the deceased expressed to his physician "great re- great and manly shame for much of his past career, and an humble desire to live that he might lead a better life.
 O. B. Hummer, of Bangor, gives no- tice that any person who shall hereafter give or sell to him any of those stimu- lants which destroy self-control and arouse that most ungovernable of pas sions, the appetite for strong drink, will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
 Our yearly supply of gold at the date of the discovery of the precious metals in California was about $3, ,000, 900. It sprang up at once to $25, ,000, 900, rum nlng up to it's maximum figure in 1853 of 68,O00,000. For the last seven or eight years it has averaged not far from $6O, 100000.
 Joaquin Miller, in his book about the Modocs, relates that an old fellow who had been on the warpath brought to him leather bag. While he tap ped it lightly with his bowie knife the blood oozed through the seams. Look ing at Joaquin the old Modoc said, "Them's scalps."
 An army officer says he would be- lieve that story about Modoc Jacks body being sent to Washington pre- served in whisky, if he was not sure that the officers of Fort Klamath were never known to allow whisky enough to preserve an Indian to pass out of that inclosure in such way.
 The new Roman Catholic Church in New York city is to be the most expen- sive, ambitious, and splendid building on this continent; but there is hardly city of hundred thousand people on the whole European continent that has not cathedral built from three to eight centuries ago, compared with which this, when finished, will be second or third rate.
 The dogs of New York State devour meat and bones sufficient to feed all its yagrants, and the Agricultural Society of Massachusetts estimates the loss of sheep by dogs in single year at 50,- 900, and assumes that the losses from wild animals, diseases, and accidents are not equivalent to the depredations of dogs, who also injure cattle and barnyard fowls.
 A German peddler sold man a iouid for exterminating bugs. "And how do you use it ?" inquired the man after he had bought it. "Ketch te bug un drop von little drop into his mouth answered the peddler. "Pshaw P ex- claimed the purchaser, "I could kill it in half the time by stamping on it. "VeIl," explained the German, "that is good way too."
 The authorities of Jasz-bereny, a Hungarian town, have just had the following notice published to the sound of the drum: "Seeing that oaths and blasphemies are the real causes of earthquakes, every one, no matter who, is forbidden to swear or to use bad language, under a penalty of receiving twenty-five stripes, with 8 rod, and paying a fine of twenty-five forins."
 A man ill North Adams, Mass, had among other property fine pig, valued at about $3O. This man owed small sum to another party in town, who con- ceived the idea-of collecting the debt Tn this wise: He got third man to pre- sent the debtor with small pig, valued at about $3; and as the law allows man but one pig, under certain circumstan- ces, the creditor attached the best pig and got his pay.
 We have seen stick of wood weigh ing scarcely four ounces fall from 8 boys arm, and striking on his toes render him incapable of further action for hours afterward, while the same boy has slipped with a pair of skates, and striking on the back of his head with sufficient force to split that article open, has not only reached his feet un- aided, but has given the boy who laughed at him one of the most aston ishing whalings he ever received.