Connecticut western news., 1873-05-02
Facts and Fancies.

An arch young lady should be an archer, for she can bend her bow as she pleases. ."
 Chicago, just recovering from fire, raised handsome sum for the Atlantic sufferers.
 A San Francisco man has brought suit for $41 ,000 for being crippled for life by dog.
 Twowomen in Vicksburg lately fought duel with butcher knives, and one of them was killed.
 Maine farmers anticipate a large hay crop this season, as the result of the great fall of snow. The friends of Nixon, sentenced to be hung in New York, have given him mplimentary ball.
 A manufactory in Rome was struck by lightning and forty persons were buried in the ruins.
 General Canby avs the Modocs' re- quest to be left in the lava beds means license to plumber.
 It would seem now that the White Star line might as we'll have been called the White Star vation line.
 Nearly $9O, 900, GOO will be received by the United States government this year as tax on liquors and tobacco.
 The Pennsylvania Assembly rejected bill to allow the truth of libel to be given in evidence for the defence.
 The Pennsylvania Railroad Company will spend $19, ,OOO, 900 in laying addi- tional tracks between Philadelphia and Pittsburg.
 A man writing poetically of the weather, says: "The backbone of win ter is broken, but the tail wags yet oc- casionally."
 A painter in Louisville, Ky, in put ting up his staging let go the rope to spit on his hands, and broke his leg on the sidewalk below.
 In the first three months of the present year, the imports of dry goods at the port of New York alone, were valued at $120, ,908,613.
 Gen. John. O. Fremont has been sentenced to iveyears solitary imprison- ment, and 5000 francs fine, in Paris. He got away just in time to escape it all.
 Massachusetts proposes to commem- crate the one hundredth anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill in 1875 by erecting statue to General Joseph Warren. .f.
 MT. Joel Roberts, of Winchester, Pa., coming down stairs the other morning, stumbled over the charred body of his daughter. By her side lay broken kerosene lamp.
 The editor of the Moorhead CD. O. Star says: "We offer special induce ments to our subscribers who club to- gether and send in any little matter of eatable, as it were."
 An old lady was admiring Landseer's beautiful picture called :" Saved" cts no wonder" she said, "that the poor dog out of the water"
 In South Africa the drouth is very severe, and sheep are dying by hun dreds and thousands. One farmer lost 1,500 sheep, and his neighbors count their losses by hundreds. lpa
 A gentleman wishing to go from Wichita to Dodge City, Kan, applied to friend for letter of introduction. He was handed double barreled shot gun and Colts revolver.
 Before member has finished his speech in the House of Commons, the greater part of it is of late not only written out, but actuallyln type in more than one newspaper office. ,,H.- ta
 A young woman in London was re- gently fined twenty shillings, or four teen days imprisonment in default, for knocking at St. James's Palace at an unseemly hour of the night.
 A worthy Kentucky farmer being asked if daughter recently married was still living with him, replied: "No, sirl When one of my gals swarms she must hunt her own hive"
 A poor man who hanged himself, l owing to domestic aff1iction accustomed by his wife, is thus disposed of out West: "Henry Lyman, shoemaker, Terre Haute-bed cord. Jealousy"
 There has been another :" minres' !" strike in Pennsylvania. A miner struck his father with a hoe-handle. He says he feels as if he had been sitting on forty-horsepower mustard plaster.
 Two or three hundred dollars of conscience-money are received in Wash ington every week. If there were O little more conscience in the country the national debt would soon be paid off. ..--. .-.... ...-
 A well-known gastronomer says that to make leg of mutton perfectly ten der it is only necessary to wrap it in cloth and bury it in the earth, where it should be allowed to remain acouple of days. aa sa
 A morning paper is of the opinion that nothing was too low for the Forty second Congress. This is mistake, for their salary was too low so the members raised it, by lowering them selves. .."
 Douglas Jerrold, for long time one of the editors of Punch, said that the man never lived who could make 365 good jokes year-or even half the One week he thoughts very good allowance. .-... ser -r. 4....
 A meeting of the friends of the lost held at Halifax, at which resolutions were passed condemning the White Star line managers for not taking more vigorous measures to recover the bodies.
 At the Borden mines, near Frostburg, John Langley was being lowered down with horse and cart, the horse kicked the coupling loose and all were precip- itated to the bottom, a distance of over 150 feet. Langley was almost instantly killed. ban .e.s svr ,sas5aa aa D
 Two women have been committed for trial at Hull upon charge of attempt ing to defraud an insurance company by submitting Q healthy person for medical examination for one who was suffering from consumption, and subse- quently died. ss- e' a5'As D A San Francisco paper heads de- scription of school committee thus :- " Personal pen-pictures of public pilh- coddies. Eccentric etchings of elastic educators. Diabolical dissection of dizzy dignitaries. Remorselessly roast-