Connecticut western news., 1873-11-14
Items of Interest.

badly ln France. It IS stated that nt6y thousand pilgrims have passed through Paris since the first of August on their way to shrines. .......... ......
 The voters in Ohio did more than one good thing when they went to the polls the last election day. By the side of each ballot-box there was placeda char ity-box for the aid of the yellow fever sufferers in Memphis. The returns are not yet all in. ....... .-....
 A singular death, through gas poison ing, has occurred at Wellington Col lege. A lad of fourteen, named Cliff ford, slept in a room said to have been imperfectly ventilated. In the morn- ing the room was found full of gas, and the boy was dead in bed. . -..
 The most barbarous execution record ed in Ireland was an amateur one, when a lieutenant in the Wicklow militia, tall, robust man named Hepenstal, find ing no tree to hang man on, actually killed him by swinging him over his shoulder with a drum-cord. ,.. ....
 There are said te be in crib on the line of the Rockford, Rock Island and l St. Louis R. R. from 300, ,000 to 400, ,000 bushels of corn of the crops of 1871-72, and in the section through which the line passes five bushels in the hands of farmers to one of any previous year.
 Some one suggests, with most ex- cellent good sense, that the immense door-plates worn by the ladies on their belts might be utilized by engraving l thereon the wearer's name, age, resi- | dence, fortune, or expectations, and stating whether heart free or engaged. The Tycoon ot Japan knows how to start a newspaper. He does not offer premiums for subscribers, but having taken an interest in the publication of 8 newspaper at the Japanese capital, he has issued an order that all men of certain social and political standing shall take it or be beheaded. rH.'.
 The Marquis of Butte, who, it ap- pears, owns nearly all the unoccupied land at Cardiff, has given @ decided res fusal to an application made to him to sell or lease site for q church. His agent assigns no reason for the refusal he merely states that the Marquis "de. clines to grant the application. "'
 The Dutch Government is in the for- tunate and exceptionable position of having no debt, and also of making money out of its colonies. The ex- penses are always kept below the in- come. The budget for 1874 estimates the expenditure at 100.000,O00 forins, and leaves surplus of 400, 900 forins.
 A Kentucky planter recently took a tobacco worm and stopped him up in an auger hole, and at the end of eight days he went tS examine and see what effect the confinement would have on the worm, and found to his surprise that during eight days the worm had transferred to large and full grown tobacco fly. aa z .l". 9@hw D. ga N.|
 A curious circumstance has transpired in connection with the Dover election. Several hundred blank voting papers were found in the ballot boxes. The conservatives say that these papers were ] deposited by conservative working men," driven by railway influence to the poll, but determined not to vete against their opinions. . g7F
 According to California paper, young lady of that State, in telling gentleman about her Yosemite trip, said the scenery was gorgeous..perfectly style of locomotion down there. How's that ?" said her friend, chow did you locomote?" "Why, don't you think, she replied, "I had to ride e Ia clothes pin" ...,. .i. 7f s...,, '..a- ", rasei 4s.s..-
 Lieut.. Col. Hogg, the plaintiff in the recent divorce case of Hogg agt Hogg and Cordery, has been called upon to explain his conduct in taking advantage of his official position as Director Gen eral of the Postofice in Bengal to ab- stract @ letter written by his wife to MT. Cordery while it was passing through the post. Meanwhile Lieut. Col. Hogg has been suspended from office. ........
 There was nothing very attractive about the manner in which MT. Arnold, of Johnson county, Mo-, met his death. In attempting to extinguish the flames in 8 threshing machine that was run ming and burning at the same time, he was caught by the cylinder, of course, and, to prevent his being drawn in, his brother seized an ax and chopped his legs of. -s t .s..e....Ea. l,.e.
 It used to be considered a beautiful exhibition of the fitness of things that worms were created for birds to eat, and birds created to eat worms. The intro duction of firearms, and the spread of Young Americanism. however, have wrought a change in respect to these matters the bird has declined, and boys, guns, and worms increase rapidly year by year. .t "- ..."
 In North Bridgewater, Mass, las spring, an elderly citizen, while plant ing potatoes lost his pocket-book | When the time come for him to dig the potatoes, the hoe brought out of the hill his missing receptacle of cash. We suppose that he must have been short during the interval, for he testify re- marked that ss it was the poorest crop he ever planted" ts .yl.. .f p
 A clergyman was asking the children a variety of questions of Scriptural nature, to which he had received very satisfactory answers. Just as he was concluding, he addressed girl some what older than the rest, and among other things inquired- "Who made your vile, body ?'' "Please sir,''' re- spcnded the unsophisticated girl, "Betsy Jones made my body, but I made the skirt myselfl' .LgHsa..v trr
 Oil City, Pa., has colored Mayor. The Republicans there nominated Miles Green,2 colored man, for the City Council and he was elected. Since the election the Mayor of the city has resigned to accept the office of county treasurer and as the city charter pro vides that in case the Mayors office is vacant, the Councilman who has re ceived the most votes shall become the acting Mayor, the colored Councilman has reached that dignity. .a,
 A Chicago paper states thatat the ex hibition there lately facet1ous vet eran from Milwaukee, stumping around on wooden leg, came upon a group eff aborigines gazing at a buzz saw in full motion, and knowing the initiative pro- clivities of the red man, laid his timber linnl, nnrnsn fhn aaw with r,nrfnck nn1Inn.