Connecticut western news., 1874-01-23
Items Of Interest.


 The embers of dying year-Novem- Der and December.
 In Rhode Island there are seven di- visions of Baptists.
 Nez Perces Indians sell horses to traders at $6 per head.
 Colorados gold and silver crop this year will amount to $5, 1000, 900.
 Six ex-citizens of the United States are members of the Canadian Parlia- ment.
 cold Prob" did not calculate for the Jay Cooke storm, and lost his money.
 Boston cleared last year 2,S54 vessels for foreign ports, again nst Z, 3,070 in 1872. Of last years vessels 2,265 were under foreign flags.
 If you wish to travel cheaply patron ize those railroads which advertise to carry their passengers through with out change"
 If it wasn't for the ten-cent stamp occasionally found in chew of tobacco considerable portion of our citizens would starve.
 The investigation into the Vile du Havre disaster at Paris, was brought to close, and the court unanimously decided that Captain Robinson, of the Loch Earn. was blameless. .
 Most of the mills in the north eastern section of Philadelphia, which stopped operations or were run on reduced time, are now running with full complement of hands, and on full time.
 In Maine 255 vessels with an aggre- gate of S9, ,699 tons, have been built in the year just closed. This is double the tonnage of 1872, and about forty per cent. more than the tonnage of 1S60-1.
 The average of winter wheat sown the previous season, compared with that of the previous year. shows an increase in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Ohio, h. diana, and Tennessee, averaging 1Oa per cent.
 Five pieces of captured French bronze cannon have arrived in Baltimore as present from the Emperor William of Germany to St. Matthew's Lutheran Church. They are to be melted for Q church bell.
 The jury impaneled to try Maggie Jordan for complicity in the escape of Sharkey, the murderer who escaped from the New York Tombs, after being locked up for twenty-four hours, failed to agree and were discharged.
 The Havana press violently denounce the United States for the loss of the Virginius, and declare that Spain will demand full reparation not only for the loss of the Virginius, but damages for breaking the treaty stipulations.
 This is how the Detroit Free Press pays it's repects to metropolitan jour naiism: "The Common Council of Brooklyn pays the reporters $50 piece per annum for reporting proceedings and for the loss of caste in mixing up with Aldermen" ..a
 According to the customs of the h. dians of Washington Territory if a doc- tor or medicine man fails to cure patient he must pay for the latter's life with blankets or blood. Henry Jack son, a half breed doctor at Olympia, had no blankets, and was publicly shot because his patient died.
 "Some men are always talking about patronizing thei1 own town," moralizes a Lyons girl. "They are always harp ing on that duty, and yet, when they want to get hurried, they go abroad to find their wives. I do hope that some of these chaps that marry Eastern women will get cheated" @
 A young lady in Jeffersonville was re- centiy made the victim of a heartless practical joke. She was almost over whelmed with confusion by the discov. cry that she had been walking the street with 8 placard pinned to the back ot Ter dress upon which was printed, "2, ,000 children wanted" s t''.
 A missionary among the freedmen ill Tennessee, after relating to some little colored children the story of Ananlas and Sapphira, asked them why God does not strike everybody dead that tells lie, when one of the least in the room answered, Because there wouldn't be anybody left. ss A married man attempted to elope with the young daughter of a clergy man in 8 Georgia town, but the girls mother. in the absence of her husband, collected some of her lady neighbors, pursued the couple half mile, res cued the girl from the carriage, and compelled her to return home.
 A man passing by the Portland, Me, post-ofice recently, saw an old and dl- fapidated looking wallet lying on the sidewalk. Hundreds of persons had passed by it, and not few had vouch- safed if a kick, It was only the way ot of the world. The man stopped and picked it up, and inside found $l2'
 Of course this is the champion sympa- thizer of the CouT'ier-,1oUrnot: "The editor of the Sandusky Registers uncle died not long ago, leaving him money enough to buy a new dress for hls naper. If we had an uncle who couldn't die and do better than that we would almost as lief he wouldn't die at all.
 A will admitted to probate in Buffalo has this odd provision: In case one or the other of my children shall be put to State's prison, or other house ot eorrec' tion. for bad conduct, through hls or her own fault, for the term of one year, sncb child or children shall have but S5 for their share after they are twenty one years old. :" -.-
 "I have offered to take wood," says the editor of the Gayoso (Mo.) Demo- crat in touching appeal, sbut not one stick has been hauled to the office by l a subscriber. If the paper is not issued next week, the friends of 1t Wall know that editor, publisher, and devil are getting up wood to run the office the balance of the winter" T 4'@g-c
 A married woman in Tennessee not long ago obtained Q verdict for $3, ,50O damages against her father for whip ping her. Her father appealed, but the Supreme Court decided against him. Meanwhile he had transferred his property to his remaining two chll' dren by deed of gift, and the daughter ; has now brought suit to have the con veyance set aside.
 l The King of Bavaria recently gave al