Connecticut western news., 1877-07-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Government still owns one- fifth of all the lands in Alabama.
 A New Haven sexton boasts of having assisted at over 5000 funerals. Hanover (Pa.) does business of $60, ,O00 per annum in tanners bark alone. Key West furnishes employment for one thousand four hundred and sixty cigar makers.
 A new three-story dormitory has been begun at Harvard College, to cost $1S0,000.
 -Of the 1O, ,OOO, ,oOO people of Euro pean Turkey, some sixty per cent. are Christians.
 Gen. Nathaniel Church has served in the Legislature of Rhode Island for thirty-six years.
 Over 36,OOO barrels of lager beer were sold in Albany during the year ending May l, 1877. H-l Miss Lemons is the belle of an Iowa town. All the young men are desirous of squeezing her..
 Albert Steinway, of the firm of piano makers, who died recently, left fortune of $4o0,000.
 Georgia reports rattlesnake, killed in Dade county, nine feet long and having thirty-six rattles.
 Newport, R. l., has a licensed drinking saloon for every seventy-five male adults of her population.
 A Wyandotte county, Kansas, man intends putting 2,00O barrels of sauer- kraut upon the market this fall.
 The late MT. Donald Ross, of Mon- treal, has bequeathed to the Trafalgar Institute of that city nearly $500, ,000.
 In October, Electors of Colorado will vote upon the question of confer ring the right of suffrage upon women.
 According to the Warden of Sing Sing prison, it is easier to manage the ,5O0 male convicts than the 120 female ones.
 The decrease in the valuation of property in Allegheny county, Pa., this year, as compared with last year, is over $3, ,O00,OOO. In 1854 the defense of Sebastopol was intrusted to General Todleben. He has just been assigned to the command of the place again.
 The city of Thayer, Kansas, pays her citizens bounty of twenty-five cents for every tree they plant within her boundaries. . Two thousand sheep were lately sold in Adelaide, South Australia, at twenty-five cents head. This is the effect of the drouth. MT. Story's beautiful statue of sDe- lilah" is now on exhibition in San Francisco. It is owned by MT. Shill- aber, who paid for it $l0,000.
 Iowa has 39, ,222 miles of railroad track. The total value of railroad pro- perty in the State is $22, ,421 ,215, de- crease of SPA ,000 since 1876. .
 Next year will be the twenty-fifth anniversary of pr. Anderson's presi- dency of the University of Rochester, and it is proposed by the alumni to cele- brate it formally.
 Some twenty-seven sets of metric weights and measures are to be dis tributed throughout the State of Massa- chusetts, in accordance with recent act of the Legislature.
 It is stated that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company have purchased the Northern Market House in Wash ingtOn. The object is to build a new and imposing station upon the site.
 Careless and indiscriminate fishing is gradually reducing the supply of shell fish on the coast of England, which draws from Norway about 600, ,000 lob sters year, and from France about 200, ,000.
 Alfred c. Anderson, a leading col ored man of Hamilton, Ohio, has filed an application for the position of United States Minister to Hayti. He is endorsed by most of the prominent co.ored men of the country.
 France has 1,O3s printing establish ments, which turn out about 800 books, worth $5,000,000 per annum. I They employ $500 compositors, 5000 pressmen, 90O proof-readers and $50 superintendents.
 An English burglar has been in the habit of keeping regular diary in which he entered full particulars as to what articles he took and what he re- Iceived for them. He had robbed 209 houses in 27 years.
 An Englishman says we may have the carrying trade of the world if we will but cut canal through the wasp like waist of our continent. Footing the bills for $150, ,000, ,000 would make the waste big enough.
 Missouri has a new law forbidding
 
 ter they know that their institution is insolvent, and making them individu- ally responsible for loans caused by neglect of this provision.
 There are 2,265 animals of all kinds in the Geological Gardens at London. The total number of visitors to the gar dens in 1876 was 915, ,764, a number ex- ceeding that of any previous year since the opening by more than 500,000.
 Among the class reunions at the Yale commencement this year will be that of the famous class of 1887, of which Secretary Evarts, Chief Justice Waite, Minister Pierrepont, Professor Silliman and other well-knoan men were members.
 Ten Broeck has made the fastest time on record for all distances. His record now stands. For four miles, l7.15A, September 27, 1876; for three miles, 5.2615, September 23, 1876; for two miles, 3.271a, May, 29, 1877; for one mile, 1892, May "A, 1877. Gen. Sheridan has given authority for the transfer of the Cheyenne Indians living near Camp Robinson to tke In- dian Territory. This is done as their own request, they having become em- bittered toward the Sioux and not wish ing to live near them any longer.
 The very oldest Free and Accepted Mason in the United States is Nathaniel Huntoon, of Unity, N. H. He is 95 years of age, and was made a Mason "A years ago. He is of the Democratic persuasion, and has voted for Jefferson, Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren, Polk, Pierce, Buchanan, Presidents, and for Governor Tilden.