Connecticut western news., 1877-12-28
GENERAL ITEMS.

The annual cost of @ regiment of troops to the United States is $1, ,OOO, 900.
 Fine oranges that grow near Talla- hassee sell in the streets of that city for $1. 50 hundred.
 In many parts of Germany taxes now amount to from IF to 20 per cent of as- certained interest.
 Boston people eat each year about 10000 beeves, of which the West pro- vides 38, 900 to 10000.
 Marshal MacMahon has been par ticularly lavish in bestowing upon for eigners the Legion of Honor.
 The exports of meat and live stock to Great Britain this year are nearly double what they were in 1876.
 The farmers of northern Alabama find great difficulty 1n procuring hands for field work and half the cotton crop re- mains in the field.
 Hon. A. G. Wakeheld has presented to the city of Bangor, Me-, 1000, ask. ing that the income be expended annually for the relief of the deserving poor.
 The Mason county, Ky, Grand Jury recommends that the whipping post be re-established to check petty thieving, and reduce the expenses of keeping pris. oners ill jail.
 The Horseshoe at Niagara is now Q right angle, rather than curve. The rocks in the centre have been eaten away from year to year, and now the side walls are crumbling.
 Dear farmer, did you leave youl scythe hanging Tn the tree last harvest Did you leave your faithful plow in the stubborn furrow? Did you leave youl harrow in the cold gray angle of the stone wall
 The prisoners in the Janesville, Wis, jail run paper of their own. Their last issue contains urgent appeals to the County Board to clean out the rats which are becoming so numerous that jail life ceases to be a pleasure.
 The little Island of St. Bartholomew, lately sold by Sweden to France, has 2,400 inhabitants. Itbelonged to France until 1764, when it was ceded to Sweden in exchange for the right to establish at Golhenburg @ market for French goods.
 Miss Hamblin, who was cut off from any share in her fathers $200, ,000, in Somerset, Md, has broken his will. He died at the age of ninety-six, after turn. ing his daughter out of doors at the bid. ding of a woman who had gained control of him.
 The great cyclone and storm wave which visited certain districts in Bengal on the morning of the list of November, 1876, drowned 90,O0O persons, and the outbreak of cholera which followed lear. ried off 75, ,000, making total mortality of 165, 900.
 Spurious wines appear to be very extensively manufactured in Berlin. One of the largest houses in the city, that pre- tended to deal only in pure wine suitable TOT medical purposes, had actually noth- ing else in stock but artificial mixtures of spirit and sugar to which some favor Ing essences were aQQ6Q.
 There is considerable distress in the iron working districts around Sheffield, England, owing to the long depression of trade and fresh dismissals of workmen. In East Sheffield there are over thou sand empty houses, whole streets being deserted, owing to the overcrowding fol economy's sake.
 John Sullivan and Annie Clem, aged respectively eighteen and fourteen, eloped together from Portland, Oregon. They embarked on 8 steamer for San Francisco A storm arose. John went into the stall of enlightened horse, and was kicked to death. Annie was so shocked and grieved, that she became insane.
 A white fifteen-year-old girl married negro Tn Fairfax, Va. No clergyman or magistrate could be found who would perform the ceremony, and so the couple simply swore on the bible in the pres. snce of witnesses, that they would be faithful as husband and wife. The girls father, on hearing of the marriage, killed the negro.
 A woman in St. Louis, crazed by the death of her husband, resolved to kill her baby and herself. She raised { knife over the child's cradle, buther arm was held by her ten-year-old boy. Dur ing whole day the lad defended the baby from his mothers repeated attempts to take it's life. At length she relin quished her efforts and poisoned her | self.
 In Mexico, Oswego county, N. Y. the merchants formed Q protective society against persons who contracted debt' and did not pay them. They published a list of the dead beats in the village newspaper. Thereupon the house of tho secretary of the association was burned the presidents drug store was set on fire and the editor was warned that he would have neither house nor office if he pub ished the list again. q On the Border.
 Judge Howard, who was among tho