Connecticut western news., 1873-09-19
Items of Interest.


 The Tichborne litigation has cost to date over $500,000.
 A Texas cattle-raiser has pasture of 160, ,000 acres.
 The, season loses none of it's fruitful ness in snake stories as it advances.
 The use of petroleum and tobacco is largely on the increase in Grea Britain.
 It has never been definitely settled who first uttered the salutation "Good morning."
 A Iowa farmer received SC, 300 for 100 fat three-years old steers, money paid at the gate.
 Eleven persons were recently poisoned near Sheffield, England, by eating poi soned mushrooms.
 The high price of bread is causing great agitation in Paris, and serious trouble is apprehended.
 A great storm, accompanied by tidal wave, has driven thirty vessels ashore at Sidney, Cape Breton.
 It has been proved that botts which infest horses stomachs willlive twenty four hours in turpentine or alcohol.
 The vital statis tics of one week in New York were, S15 death 8, 513 births, 156 marriages, and 40 still born infants.
 The individuals who killed Tecumseh have been so thinned out by death this summer that not over five or six remain.
 From five to seven refrigerator cars, loaded with butter, are said to be shipped East every day from Chicago.
 The conductor whose train collided with one on the Marietta and Cincin- natl R. R. has been committed to jail at Circleville, O..
 Alderman John Nichols, of Phila- delphia, who was convicted of extortion in office, has been sentenced to nine months imprisonment.
 The Railrood Gazette estimates that the extent of new railways built in this country in 1873 will be more than forty per cent. less than for 1872.
 Lice on setting hens, it is asserted, may be exterminated by mixing tobacco stems with little hay and lining the nest therewith. It is worth trying.
 Scene in Court: Judge-Have you anything to offer to the Court before sentence is passed on you? Prisoner No, Judge; had ten dollars, but my lawyers took that.
 In view of the fact that there are 209,- 907 persons engaged in farming in Iowa to III, ,248 in all other pursuits, the farm ers' ticket would seem to stand a good chance of success.
 The Cresco CIa.) Plain Dealer threat ems to print the name of every man in that place who visits liquor saloon, the number of times day he makes the visits, and at what hours.
 U. s. Judge Advocate General Holt denies having withheld from President Johnson petition signed by five mem- bers of the court when presenting the record of the trial of Mrs. Surratt.
 A farmer in Washington county, Ky, has found a practical use for a snake. For two years he has had one shut up in his corn crib, and during all that time not live mouse has been seen there.
 Mems lives should be like the days, more beautiful in the evening; or like the spring, aglow with promise, and the autumn, rich with golden sheaves, where good works and deeds are ripened on the field. .. ..... .v ...
 The sharpest nan in the world, so far as heard from, "hangs out at Fafayette, Ind. He subsists by driving spikes in the timbers of bridge and collecting the wisps of hay that are caught by them from passing loads. -f.
 Notwithstanding the great loss by the November fire, the valuation of real and personal property of Boston this year will show an increase of little more than $7, 900, 900 over last year. The rate of taxation will be about $13 on 1000.
 Lake Tahoe, Nevada, has curiosity. Half mile from shore tree stands perpendicular in eighty feet of water. It projects ten feet above the surface, and is fastened so firmly to the bottom that it affords safe moorage to the larg- est crafts on the lake.
 The Rochester Union says: Strange as it may appear at first sight, there are more locomotives in 11se on the Western Division of the New York Central Rail- road, in switching and making up trains, than are engaged in drawing the freights across the division when ready to move."
 There isn't much encouragement to suicide in Milwaukee. A wealthy farm. CT hung himself there the other day, and his wife not only refused to cut down the body but wouldn't have any thing to do with it after it was down. The authorities had to attend to it's burial. Ia
 The Juggernaut car in India crushed eight women to death at Gooptipara this summer. The Bengal Government to put a stop to the dragging of these dangerous cars, proposition which the people generally do not re- sent, although the priests strongly op- pose it. .tf ... .,.....a.u-
 It is stated that while the present cot ton consuming population of the world 10 not increase in numbers at the rate of over one per cent. per annum, the cot on product of the world is increasing 1t the rate of five per cent. per annum, md that therefore there is an increasing surplus of four per cent. per annum.
 A Green Bay (Wis.) paper says that he history of the pine land frauds in 5hawano county is, in brief, that at ,ale of valuable pine lands, which took place at the land office in Menasha last year, some parties bid off at 8 large price the more valuable lands, and for cited them by not paying for them within the time prescribed. Next day hey went to the office and entered them tt the minimum price, $1. .25 per acre. At the present time Lausanne appears o be the scene of some little excite nent on account of strikes. On an eve- ing not long ago several groupsof peo- ,le gathered in the Montee of St. Fran ois, which was so blocked up as to be- ome impossible. The police did their est to make the people "move on, but n vain. A tube was therefore affixed 0 a water-pipe in the street, and the rowd treated to cold douche. s1'r4
 The fair Americans who dressed their ianos in pantalets, are rivaled by aatron of Illinois who made. last MIn-