Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27
NEWS IN BRIEF


 The Western Penitentiary at Pitts burg, Pa, turns out 1000 pairs of shoes daily. .'. .s'
 Most of the new churches in London are adapted to hold from 1 800, to LOGO people. . .W .'-. t4--.. .. r-,.-s
 The new Rusk county, Texas peni- tentiary will cost the large sum of $1G0,o00. .r...... The Barataria canal cost 5000, 900, and will make New Orleans "new Byzantium." ."" -fa ..+ a-..t .-.-. :vta The United States in IS30, contained 12,700,0 900 inhabitants,, of which l,950,- 900 were slaves. .... ->. L-, .fas.-, ,,.,t,s There are found to be nearly twenty thousand Freedmen's Bank depositors With balances of $5 or less.
 Mayor Schroeder proposes to buy up all the fireworks in Brooklyn and have them exploded on waste land.. ln S!Fi'm
 Al sturgeon thirteen feet long and weighing five hundred pounds, DsWas caught of Newburgh recently. s,afo Spain has seventeen, Admirals, and if all are to be provided for, the Cuban war bonanza must last till 1900. &'if''9
 -SmitEfield is mentioned as a market for cattle as early as 1750. It was last used for this purpose on dune II, 'lS55J
 The coasts of England and Wales are officially said to be about 2 ,0O0 miles in extent; Scotland, HOO, and Ireland, 1,300. ...l... ,..'.... .r- r.... .-Ehe Arkansas Industrial University can accommodate 800 students. It is said to be the largestand most elegant strlic- ture iiI the State.:i l.. mla Ui a"gb hssl9
 A woman at. Elizabeth, N?Jg, has 5000 recipes for making horse liniments and salyes, and yet she never owned even clothes-horse .......... .t.
 Two women have been appointed photographers to the Supreme Court Of" Maine, and are highly commended by both henchrand bar. a,i s...st sa g.r rR's .-The New Hampshire State Prison contains, l6Q eonvicts, and the earnings of the year just closed exceed the expen- ditures by over 5000. '"'' ~
 Boys are engaged by farmers in the northern and western portions of the State of New York to pick potato bugs at five cents hundred. t .,..tg,-y.s n
 Mrs. Cox, of fHolderness, x. H., lOl years old on the 25th ult., is now enjoy- ing for the first time in her life, the de- light of whooping cough. '+''f-
 It is estimated that twenty millions of Presbyterians will be represented at the grand Presbyterian alliance whfoh meets shortly in Edinburgh. .., al ss
 In the year 1903, 36, ,969 of the in- habitants of London died, of the plague, and in 1875, 7S,596 deaths were re- corded, 7,l65 dying in less than one week. 4 ..+,=. .l# e5s ..fa,'s .tD
 The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has given gold watch to the agent of the Boston Lecture Bureau who. traveled 3O, ,OOO miles with him in the West during his recent tour.
 Twenty eight Chinese boys are on their way to English and French naval colleges. Japanese example has evil dently told even upon Chinese anti European feeling. ....' ... ...s At Beecher's Peekskill farm last year his onions cost $l 50 per bushel; beef, 50 cents per pound; oats $2 per \ bushel; butter $l 20 per pound, and eggs 70 cents per dozen. .... -.s.-...t n
 The most thrifty husband on record lives in New Hampshire. Within eight months he has buried three wives, the last being but seventeen years of age. He is again ready for the altar.
 The model town in the State of New York is Alfred. It has 2,000 inhabi- tants, has never had single glass of liquor sold within its limits, and never pauper to support.
 A pound turtle re- gently captured near Norfolk Conn.,, was strong enough to move about from place to place while bearing upon its back man weighing 200 pounds. #,-
 Among the curiosities of the Colum- bia, N. Y., College library are the old arm chair in which Governor De Witt Clinton died, and the arm chair in which Benjamin Franklin was wont to sit.
 Three women living near Cisco, Ill.,, have between them given birth to ten children within the last six weeks. There was a trio of girls, and quartette of boys but the sex of the other trio is unknown.
 The St. John (N. B.) Duly Tele- grdph was issued on the morning after the fire in a single sheet about foot square. with two small advertisements and a description of the disaster which had overtaken the city.
 The Hallowell (Me.) Granite Con- pany have almost finished the statue of the Goddess of Liberty which is to sur mount the Pilgrims monument at Ply mouth. The figure is forty-five feet high, and the stone from which one arm was cut weighed sixty tons.
 Miss Jenny North is to be valedic- torian of her class at the coming con- mencement of Bates College, Maine. She is the youngest member of the class, and IS reported to be the first woman who has been graduated with the high est honors by any New England college admitting women.
 p MT. Motley received from the Har- pers, as copyright, the comfortable sum of $60,000, while Professor Charles Anthon got upon his writing $100, 900. The firm paid to MT. Jacob Abbott $50.- GOO, to the late Albert Barnes $75,000, and to Marcius Wilson, the author of heir SC ries of school readers, about $200,000. ..-
 The canal around Mussel Shoals, in the Tennessee river, will be fourteen and half miles long. Something less than a million of dollars, in addition to the amount already expended, will be necessary to complete the work. The locks will be large enough to accomo- date a first-class Mississippi river steamer.
 Increase in the Use of Drugs.