Connecticut western news., 1873-04-18
Items of Interest.

Southern farmers find the production
 of peanuts more profitable than either
 wheat, corn or tobacco.
 The manager of Mobile gas company
 is appropriately named Dim, ill the opinion of the authorities.
 A St. Louis paper recommends an ambitious debating society in that State to. decide (Which is the butt end of a goat?"
 A man died in New York town the
 other day, and in his will left " that olt liar and tattler, the widow Jones, two
 cents."
 It is estimated that between $900,.
 O00,0 and $1 ,O0O, ,OOO, 900 of American
 railway bonds have been negotiated in
 Germany.
 A popular doctor in Oswego gave q prescription, with directions to take teaspeonful every three years. The patient recovered.
 A Pittsburgh brides dowry lately consisted of two barges of coal, which her father thinks ought to secure herre- ception by the ton anywhere.
 Contrary to what would naturally be supposed, deep-sea telegraphs do not ''pay." Out of more than 50 different lines only five pay dividends.
 There is a woman at Duluth who weighs 360 pounds. At little distance it is difficult to tell which is the larger of the two, the town or the woman.
 Asubstitute for ivory and bone veneers has recently been discovered, made from goat and .sheep's bones, the feshing of deer skins, parchment parings, etc.
 Society in Washington is all agog over the rumored engagement of Miss Nellie Grant to Tom Murphy, son of Collector Tom Murphy of New York,
 The Chicago Tribune, says that the Legislature of Illinois was in session eleven weeks when it had passed two bills, one of which was adopted to en- able the other one to go into effect,
 A St. Paul jury has brought in yer dict that a husband and his wife have each suffered cruel and inhuman treat ment at the hands of the other, and that consequently each is entitled to a di- vorce.
 The attendant in the gentlemen's dressing room where a first class party was given recently, at New York, dis covered that almost every overcoat in his charge had loaded revolver in the pocket.
 It is estimated that the strawberry crop of Long Island during the coming season will be at least 120, ,000 quarts, or nearly 4, 900 bushels. At Mattituck the crop is expected to be at least 60,000 quarts.
 A big rufian in Boston undertook the other night, to bully a servant girl left alone in house into getting him dinner. She went for him with cary ing knife, and he went away as hungry as he came.
 A village paper, speaking of the pres ent depression of its town, says it is caused by lack of unanimity, lack of sociability, lack of home pride, distrust of one another, and great desire for braggart display.
 The president of Nashville street railway responded to @ demand for fare by saying, "I own most of this road" and got this reply: "Well, you won't own it long if you don't pay me your fare; that's all I've got to say about it. ,"
 A Winona paper tells of snow-drift between St. Peter and New Ulm, Min 1esota, on which four hundred shovels were engaged for days. The snow was from 25 to 30 feet deep, and the cut through the drift was twelve hundred 'eet long.
 New Hampshire Republicans and Democrats alike seem to commend the yraceful action of Gov. Straw in ap- ,ointing to seat on the State Bench Ion. Ellery A. Hubbard, the defeated candidate for reelection to ' Congress.
 After fifteen years experience, the Omaha publishers have come to the conclusion that the newspaper business s @ legitimate one, and they have cut if their dead-heads and given notice hat free pufing has also ceased. All hey ask is to pay and be paid like white olks.
 Mat. Tarpey, who was hanged by the ynchers near Monterey, Cal, made 1in giving $1,OOO to Nicholson, the husband of his victim. Nicholson wit essed the lynching, and Tarpey beg ed his forgiveness, and asked him to lace his hands on his head as he knelt. Nicholson granted the request.
 An outrageous case of cruelty to ami 1als recently occurred at Somerset, Vt. man drove team of horses through he deep snow until they stopped from then left them on the road eeking with. precipitation, and went to neighboring house for the night. In he morning he was so enraged at find oR 4ho% ha ed the sufferings of the other by stab ing it with knife.
 Troy has it's sensation. This time outh who loved a lady ($50, 900 worth), eguiled her into a sleigh ride, and ought the house of a clergyman, sev- ral miles from the city. He then first eclared his love, and told her she must harry him. She fatly refused, and he old her she might walk home. The lucky girl started to do so, but the piled fortune-hunter relented, and car jed her back to Troy. When in the ity, she slapped his face, leaped from he sleigh, and ran home. Names arc ,ithheld for the lady's sake.
 A Syracuse gentleman and his wife lift home, a few days ago, for an ex- ended Southern tour, intending to pend the spring months in Florida. hey got as far as New York, and in isiting one of the theatres therethe gen eman was robbed of his wallet con aiming the several hundred dollars .ith which he was to defray the ex- enses of the trip. In the rear of that entleman's Syracuse house may be cen thoughtful man chopping wood l his shirt sleeves, while sad-eyed oman within pats butter and sighs.
 A solicitor who had recently been en- aged by prominent life insurance rm, returned to the office of his em- lovers, the other day, and complained hat he had been snubbed by gentle ,an on whom he had called. Snub- ed," cried the manager, ''snubbed! Why, what did you do that he should ave snubbed you! I have solicited