Connecticut western news., 1877-06-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Orleans expects to handle ], 400, ,000 bales of cotton this year.
 Over 25,O0O barrels of American apples were eaten by England last year.
 A beet sugar manufacturing com pany at Isleton, Cal, will SOW 300 acres of beets this season.
 It is reported that the Stevens bat tery has been purchased by the Russian government for $l000,000.
 The annual production of the 2,600 breweries of the United States is 1885, COG, 900 gallons of malt liquors.
 Mrs. Stowe has made more by her pen than any other American woman, having probably cleared $15O, ,OOO.
 A bullet-proof passenger-car weigh ing $500 pounds, has been built at York, Pa., for the Spanish government for uss in Cuba.
 The highest railroad bridge in the world is that over the Kentucky river which the Cincinnati Southern road has just completed.
 -Gatling, the inventor of the Gatling gun, has invented mitrailleuse that is said to fire quite easily from s5 to l 1000 shots per minute.
 A Japanese journal, for women only, has 12,000 subscribers. It is said to be much like the trashy weeklies of the United States.
 king Alfonso, of Spain, recently washed the feet of twelve aged paupers, A band and POO people were present during the ceremony.
 - Congressman John Randolph Tucker, of Virginia. and Richard P. Bland of Missouri are both nephews of John Randolph of Roanoke. -One of the Newfoundland seal ves- sells recently captured in twenty-six days cargo of seals worth $120, 1000, the best single trip ever made. The State Geologist of Wisconsin has just reported that the copper-bearing rocks of Lake Superior extend almost uninterruptedly across the State. The Baron Rothschild who is at the head of the Vienna firm is said by the papers of that city to possess an annual income of $50 ,000, ,000. This is $75, 900 day. The Berlin University aas now 1877 regular students, and that at Leip- | sig 2,730. Twenty-one universities in Germany have now 1,S27 teachers and professors.
 Peter Cooper, who was seventy-six in February, built the first railway engine made on this continent, and was the first person to apply anthracite coal successfully to the pudding of iron.
 The United States buysseighty per 1 cent. of the sugar crop of Cuba, and ninety per cent. of the molasses crop, and pays the island balance of trade amounting to. .$70, ,000, ,000 annually.
 -"The Sons and Daughters of Love and Charity" and the "Rising Sons and Daughters of Progress societies in Washington, egot into row recently, in which knives and pistols were drawn. | Prof. John Ruskin certainly prac- tices what he breaches. He says that his father left him $500, ,OO0, besides a great deal of real estate and many valu- able pictures. His mother also left him $ls5, 900. He gave $s5,000 to his poor relations.
 The dogs on Mount St. Bernard saved the lives of forty persons during the past winter. At the distance of an hours march they can discover, through their wonderful sense of smell, whether travellers are on the mountain, and be- gin to howl as soon as they do.
 A Poughkeepsie lady has returned from tour in the Holy Land and pre- sented two Newburg snobs with veri- table Egyptian bugs, such as we read of in the Bible. The snobs had them mounted as scarf pins, and now parade with them about the terraced streets of Newburg.
 California produced 20, ,509 fasks of quicksilver last year from one mine, an increase of fifty per cent for single year, and though the price has decreased for couple of years, and other mines have been discovered and wrought, the diminished cost of production has left good profit.
 -Ex-President Grant will lease both of his cottages at Long Branch this sea- son. The one on the right of the Ocean will be occupied by the Seligmans, the government bankers. The one he occu- pied for the past six seasons has been taken by Harry McAuliff, of Brooklyn Heights.
 -Irrigating the dry lands of Colorado from wells by windmill power has been recently found practicable by farmer named Evans in that State. With one small mill an acre of vegetables was watered, and the thirst of a herd of eighty head of cattle, horses and sheep was quenched.
 The State of Georgia has sold the labor of the convicts in it's State Prison for $25, ,000 year, which is at the rate of about $11 year for each convict. The State appears to have been badly swindled, as the contractors are now successfully "sub-letting" the convicts at $60 year apiece. b.
 Mir. B. H. Squibb, of Brooklyn, has given to the University of Virginia, & full equipment for a gymnasium. During the last year that institution has also received in trust a gift of $100, 1000 from s. Miller, of Lynchburg, Va., for the establishment ofa depart ment of scientific and practical agricul- ture.
 An island was put up at auction in London on April g, with no bidders. It was Herm, one of the Channel Islands, three miles from Guernsney and Sark, comprising an area of 600 acres, with a good harbor, granite quarries, excellent fishing, an old-fashioned residence, with chapel and new villa and no taxes.
 After successful trial of the sub- terranean cable from Berlin to Halle, in Germany, new lines of longer dis tances were projected, and are being pushed to completion. Among them is one from -the-Main to Strasburg. l 1,439, ,000 marks ($350, ,OOO) have been appropriated for this line, which will have, as principal stations, the cities of Darmstadt, Mannheim, Kar- isruhe and Rastadt. ,.-..' - unARRaro.on