Connecticut western news., 1873-10-17
Items of Interest.

 race meeting Tichborne won the handi- cap.
 1t is stated that there are 50, 900 mem- bers of the International Society in Spain.
 The new Masonic Temple in Phila- delphia has been dedicated with great display.
 The Crow Indians are reported to have surrendered their Yellowstone reservation.
 The piazza around the fall styles of shoes is little broader than those built in the summer.
 The British Admiral Yelverton has surrendered the insurgent iron-clads to the Spanish Government.
 The physicians of New Orleans testi- fly that they have not single case of yellow fever in their practice.
 A patent fire escape killed four men in Montreal the other day, and it was only experimenting even then.
 There was railroad collision of trains near Carlisle, Eng, by which several persons were killed and injured.
 The State Bank of New Brunswick, N. J., suspended because $250, 900 had been " misappropriated" by its cashier.
 Learn to say "no" with propriety; there is no necessity for snapping it out dog-fashion, but say it firmly and res pectfully.
 A Philadelphia servant, left in charge of the house for week, cheated the house of $7,000 worth of furniture and sold it for $650.
 The London Daily NesOs believes that the financial panic in New York will possibly lead to the resumption of specie payments.
 A lazy down east hen lays her eggs in manure pile, and calmly enjoys her scratching while the little chicks hatch themselves out.
 An Indian skull of an extinct tribe has been discovered in @ mound in San Francisco. The Academy of Science is discussing its age.
 is in corn. The Chicago Tribune in- dicates from one-half to two-thirds an average crop this year.
 The editor being in Nebraska, the Lebanon Potriot has less original mat ter, and is better paper than usual says the Indianapolis Ne'0s.
 Where is "parts unknown ?" asks correspondent of the Danbury NetoS, to which Bailey answers very truthfully, "Where they don't advertise"
 It is estimated that the Secretary of the U. s. Treasury will find it abso- lutely necessary to increase the legal tender circulation at least $S, 900, 900.
 Stokes is outrivalled by prisoner in one of the county jails of Pennsylvania, who has been waiting for some gover- nor to sign his death-warrant since 1850.
 Love is like the measles. If you don't catch it till late in life, this in- fantile complaint, which most people never have but once, is likely to go hard with you.
 John Green, alias McDonald, now sentenced to the State Prison in Massa- chusetts, has confessed that he killed James Graham. at Little Neck, l.. l., in February, 1878.
 Convey thy love to thy friend, as an arrow to the mark, to stick there-not as a ball against the wall, to rebound back to thee; that friendship will not continue to the end that is begun for an end.
 The bark Glacier from Hudson Bay arrived in New Bedford, Conn.,, bring ine portions of the crews of the Rus sell Gibbs and Orray Taft, and what are believed to be relics of Sir John Franklin.
 A woman has been arrested in Balti- more on the charge of being a common sceld. The laws of Maryland make no provision for the punishment of such offense, and she is to be tried under an old English common law.
 Mufins of Darby it was who sat a long time very attentively, musing upon cane-bottom chair. At length he said, "I wonder what fellow took the trouble to find all them ar holes and put straws around 'em."
 Of the children born in London more, than. twice as many are raised to ma turity now than were raised one hundred years ago. Then more than one-half died under the age of five years; now only about quarter.
 The Chinese Temples in San Fran cisco, which used to be among the curi- ous places visited by strangers, has be- come less popular since it has been dis covered that the Chinese use them to secrete smallpox patients.
 A few days since riot broke out at Puttamby, in the Madras Presidency, India. A detachment of the Forty third regiment was sent there by special train and after eight of the rioters had been killed, order was restored.
 Of $12, 1000, 900 in greenbacks paid out by the U. s. Teasury in New York to redeem bonds, $10, 900, 900 were at once locked up in the Safety Company's vaults by anxious and excited, individ- uals, who were afraid of something.
 Two of the Bank of England forgers are confined in the Pentonville Prison, and the two others in the Holloway prison. No visitors will be permitted to see them until the eve of their de- parture. Each one will de transported to different penal colony.
 A Bombay telegram announces the capture of slave dhow near the Ley chelles Islands, off the eastern coast of Africa, by the British naval sloop Daphne. The dhow had had 300 slaves on board, but only 30, and those re- duced to skeletons, were alive. The others had died of smallpox.
 A Watertown (Wis. lady sent postal card to friends in Fond du Lac, inform ing them of her intention of making @ visit. When she arrived, the card had been thrown aside without reading, they supposing it 8 new way the post master had for asking for box rent.
 The Launceston local board of health in England, in consequence of an ad- vance in the price of gas, have resolved to light the town with petroleum oil, and have made contract for the pur- pose. A few of the petroleum lamps have been tried, and the board of health allege that the light is quite equal to the gas formerly supplied. .aa. aA