Connecticut western news., 1873-05-16
Items of Interest.

Nevada has enacted compulsory edu- cation.
 A married Indiana man has eloped with his step-mother.
 The last Legislature of Kansas organ ized eleven new counties.
 In April the United States received $S,000,000 from Internal Revenue.
 New York sawdust in boxes continues to bring fabulous prices ill the rural districts.
 The Maine Republican State Conven- tion is to be held in Bangor, Thursday, June 19.
 A Newport cat washes its face in basin as neatly and skillfully as it's proud owner.
 Fred. Douglass was refused the use of the Opera-house in Lexington, Ky, for a lecture.
 The announcement that truth is stranger than fiction" is said to depend chiefly upon who tells 1t.
 Nearly all the American girls study ing for the operatic stage in Milan lodge in the same house.
 A Montreal boy fell six stories through the hoistway of store, last week, and did not break bone.
 Proceedings have been instituted against two papers in Toronto for pub fishing gift-enterprise advertisement.
 With the spring weather suicides are taking place in vast numbers. The pa pers report a number of cases every day.
 A Chicago druggist, whose clerks mistake cost a woman her life, has been sued for $25, ,000 damages by her husband.
 A Lynn man has invented substitute for sole leather, which, he claims, is cheaper in price and superior in dura- bility to that article.
 Two candidates for a local office in Illinois receiving an equal number of votes lately, "tossed up" to see which should have the office.
 The Havana authorities have deliv- cred to the English officers the Bank of England forgers, and they will be taken to England in a man-of-war.
 Small contributions to the United States conscience fund are the order of the day. Sums ranging from $1 to Ss5 reach the Treasury every day.
 Three boys in Evansville, Ind, tried to see which could hang longest by the neck. When their sport was interrupted one of them was almost dead.
 In Chicago two pounds of canned green corn are worth as much as sixty pounds of shelled field corn, the former being most of it brought from Maine.
 The two love-sick Wisconsin girls,
 III Jo- uFr,11 Ivy at tempted to commit suicide together by poison, have since drowned themselves.
 A little lady in Schenectady recently sent word to her aged P. in New York that she must be excused from writing longer letter. She had spent very restless night with a sick doll.
 A Rhode Island enthusiast at an auc- tion bought lot of furniture and then asked the crowd to name "the poorest woman in town" The name was given, and the goods were sent to her.
 A Massachusetts farmer recently ad- vertised his farm for sale, and now he is asserting that he has fed out over a hundred barrels of oats to the horses of persons who have come to examine 1t.
 Some practical jokers, in Worcester, Mass, a month ago put some ~tacks ir a chair for their friend Thomas McGee to sit on, and they produced wounds on his thigh which led to dangerous ab- cesses.
 The order of Patrons of Husbandry has extended it's operations into the far South. The farmers of Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia are organizing into granges, and evince lively interest in the movement.
 A telegram operator in Baltimore, recently sued 8 friend for twenty-five cents, the amount he paid fora telegram sent at his request. He obtained 8 verdict for the amount and costs, ,aggre- gating $1. 95, but the edefehdant appealed, and has finally given bond in the sum of fifty cents.
 The Attorney General of the United States has given his opinion that indi- gent persons who volunteered in the Union army during the rebellion, and have since that time become insane, are entitled to admission to the Govern ment Asylum for the Insane in the Dis trict of Columbia. ...
 Corporal punishment is rarely infict- ed in the schools of Russia and Germany. In France it is prohibited. In Switzerland school-whippings are left to the regulation of the separate cantons. In England there is constant and vigorous whipping, and in America the custom is dying out. ...-. ..
 It is stated that MT. Stockwell, who has been lately so badly bled in Wall street, tells this old joke as upon him self When I first came down in Wall street I was called Stockwell then, when I began to make money, l was called MT. Stockwell. Then it was Captain Stockwen and subsequently I became known as Commodore Stock we'll. Now it is that red-headed cuss from Cleveland" ~..
 The employer of large number of Chinese laborers in North Adams, Mass, still expresses himself much pleased with their achievements, and says they live up to their contract. He regards many of the stories relating to Chinamen as congregations or mis- representations by interested parties, and thinks, from his own experience, that when they are properly treated they become excellent laborers and me- chanics. ..f
 The Wisconsin Assembly has chap lain (the Rev. MT. Richardson) who is determined to do his duty and to earn his salary. He admonishes the mem bers in an indirect way through his prayers. The other morning he invoked the Almighty to put stop to the prac- tice of dancing in the Assembly cham Der. He also represented that the hon. orable members were too much given to levity and foolishness, and he prayed that they might be brought to ''real- izing sense" of their weakness and folly.
 ANOTHER ATTEMPT. The boy Wilfred l.. Fitts, of Lowell, now in cell of the