Connecticut western news., 1877-04-27
NEWS IN BRIEF

Sir Walter Scott's house in Edin- burgh was recently sold for $13,5OO.
 There are ], 1,11O students in the Uni versity of Michigan at the present time.
 The State of Virginia will collect tax of one cent on each drink of liquor sold at bar.
 The butter and egg trade of Web ster City, Iowa, last season aggregated nearly $S0,000.
 The New York Open Stock Board has disbanded, and the Gold Board will close up May 1st.
 There are 991 lighthouse keepers employed by the United States, at a cost of $594 500 per annum.
 Over one and half million dozen eggs were shipped from Nashville dur ing the month of February.
 Rev. Dr. Houghton has been pastor of the 'Little Church Around the Cor ner' for twenty-seven years.
 In point of railroad mileage Ger many heads European countries. In proportion to area, Belgium.
 Fred Grant has been sent to the State prison for burglary, but it was Fred Grant who lived in Rockland, Me.
 George Macdonald, the novelist, has eleven children, and the boys and girls alternate regularly through the whole number.
 General Hancock is to be assigned to the Southern military district again, much to the satisfaction of the residents of Louisiana.
 English capitalists have loaned to foreign countries total of $335, ,094, ; 423, which they are not likely to get back again. u-. a.
 The Home for Women, founded in New York by the late A. T. Stewart, has been fully furnished, and will shortly be opened. r..t..
 At Florence, Arizona, ihere is res- turant kept by Chinaman, with a Mexican wife, negro cook and white man for waiter.
 -A-grand ball is to be given in Music Hall, Boston on the 9th of April, in aid of the old South Preservation Fund. Save the old church.
 The German Postmaster General proposes the introduction of postal cards serving for all countries in the Postal Union, at the price of one penny each.
 Soup houses are growing In favor all over Germany, owing to the distress caused by business depression and the | resulting hard times among working people. ....... ....~ ..... Mrs. Jackson, of Boston, spends her time in collecting money with which to redeem articles pawned by poor people in that city during the past hard winter.
 -Manufactories of wood at Chicago number 226, with capital of $7, ,671 ,O00 :; employ 9,263 hands, pay $4,0l3,570 for wages and produce goods to the amount of SIS, ,S07, ,000.
 The Dominion Government is said to have under consideration the ques- tion of an appropriation to have Canada properly represented at the Paris Exhi- bition of 1878. | There are no less than twenty arte- sian wells in Meeme, Wis. A fountain struck last week throws out 5000 gall Ions per hour, through a hole eighteen inches in diameter. a.
 In England in 1873 iron and steel rails were selling at E15 and S22 per ton, respectively; now, they may be had for f5 5s. and E7 5s. Pig iron has fallen to less than half its price in 1873.
 The old Schuyler mansion at Albany, N. r., where General Burgoyne was confined after his surrender at Saratoga, belongs to the widow of ex-President Fillmore, who at present resides in Buffalo.
 A Baltimore inventor is ruined. He invented 8 kind of air cushion for women's bustles, put all his money into their manufacture. and now change of fashion has left the stock valueless on his hands.
 The Prince of Wales has decided to place his two eldest sons on the ship-of- war Brittapia, in order that they may be subject to naval discipline, although not necessarily with the view to adopting the navy as profession.
 A statistical Parisian boot-maker has recently given American ladies the distinction Of having the smallest feet feet by nature among their sex, and from them he ascends in the order of Spanish, Italians, Russians and English to the Germans.
 The Rhode Island Fish Commits sioners put 120, ,000 salmon and 100000 land-locked salmon into the various
 rivers of that State last year, and stocked twenty-five ponds with black bass. 2 Their efforts in shad culture have proved
 very SucceSSIul. At the old Kings Arms Inn, Lan-
 caster, England, is one of the three
 clocks invented and constructed by Ben Franklin. It has three wheels and strikes the hour. It is soon to be sold with number of other curious and his. torical objects.
 Secretary Schurz can speak fiuently
 in the English, German and French
 languages, and it is said that his gifl
 causes him good deal of trouble as it enables office seekers of three nationali- ties to weary him with eloquence in their native tongue.
 Tt is estimated that about 10000 oi French revolutionists who participated
 in the revolution of the Commune are now in the United States, of whom about 2,000 reside in New York city, About 10, 900 are still held in penal ser vitude at New Caledonia. Comptroller Hubbard of Connecti. cut refused to purchase the portrait oi Sir Edmund Andros, which the Legis, lature authorized him to buy, on tho , of a place among the Governors of the State. The Senate sustained him. MT. James Irvine, the great sheep
 farmer, of Los Angeles county, Califor- mia, intends to kill thirty-nine thousand , sheep on account of the drought which prevails in that region. He owns alto , gether about forty five thousand sheep , and one hundred and seven thousand acres of land.
 A large number of Roman coins anC . an enameled brooch, inclosed in & hand . some vase, were dug up in London tho } other day, by some workmen who were
 laying gas pipes. The coins bore in , scriptions which showed them to be oi the reigns of the Roman Emperors be tween S1 and 195 A. D. Madame Bonaparte, of Baltimore is now in her ninety-fourth year, and |