Connecticut western news., 1877-04-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.

A recent census of the Black Hills shows the population to be 6,550.
 -Gvmnasiums are being provided at all the large barracks in Great Britain. That of Tipperary cost $14 ,250.
 Germany twelve years ago had no Sunday schools. Now it has over l, 200 containing more than 30.000 scholars.
 It is now in order for ex-President Grant to write a volume of memoirs, and secure thereby round $100, 900, or more.
 /. Dom Pedro was represented by hls daughter at the late opening of the Bra gillian Parliament. Her speech was brief and to the point.
 A French station-master has been sentenced to three years imprisonment and a fine of $60, for negligently per hitting a railway accident.
 The Hon. George H. Farrier, of New Jersey, has over 5000 coins, medals and colonial bills, being perhaps the largest collection ill the country.
 The boating men of Troy, Albany, and the neighborhood are talking of or- ganiZing large association to be known as ''The Upper Hudson Navy"
 Mrs. Stewart has given to her bro- ther, MT. Clinch, a house on Thirty fourth street, New York city, worth $50, ,OOO, and an annuity of $10,0 ,0OO.
 John High, of Lancaster county, Pa, is eighteen years old, six feet three and one-half inches high and weighs 2O3 pounds. Pretty good for high.
 Prof. Nordenskjold, the Swedish arctic explorer proposes to sail around the northern coast of Asia and return to Europe by way of the Suez canal.
 A remarkable decrease of pauper- ism is reported from Manchester, Eng land, the number of paupers having been 13, 1863 in 1870, and 4,611 in 1876.
 The exportation of fans from Japan was about 3,000,0 during 1876, valued at $9O, 900, nearly all of which large number were sent to the United States.
 A Pittsfield manufacturer Is send ing carriage rugs and blankets to South America, Norway and Sweden, and is enlarging bis mill as d result of the Ex- hibltion.
 The average annual production of kid gloves in France, is 3, ,5O0, ,OO0 dozen pairs, three-fourths of which are ex- ported; 10000 operatives are employed in the manufacture.
 The two hottest days ever known in Australia were the 10th and l6th of January, when the thermometer regis tered l05 degrees In the shade at Mel. bourne.
 Emperor Williams favorite charger Sadowa, aged twenty-eight years, which bore His Majesty at the battle of Koenig- gratz and in the rest of that campaign, is dead.
 The oldest harp in Europe, if not in the world, is to be seen at Trinity Col lege, Dublin. It is said to have belonged to King Brian Borrohm, in the tenth century.
 A Kansas doctor recently killed four Sioux Indians in single combat, and Gen. Miles has ordered sixteen rounds ofphysic to be used instead of cartridges at his next battle.
 Nineteen young Liberians are in college in this country, preparing for usefulness in their native land. It Is said that 500, 900 freedmen are willing to emigrate to Africa.
 The Maharajah of Cashmere has imported from France 250, ,OOO vines, for the purpose of growing grapes in his territories and melting the manufacture of wine as an industry.
 New York State has had six Vice Presidents of the United States-Aaron Burr, George Clinton, Daniel D. Tomp- kins, Martin Van Buren, Willard Fiil- more, and William A. Wheeler.
 Texas is larger than France by more than 10000 square miles, while If all the inhabitants of the United States were congregated there the population would not be so dense as it is in Massa- chusetts.
 A bill has passed the Connecticut house forbidding savings banks to lend money at higher rate than six per centum. This would reduce the rate of interest to depositors to five per centum.
 -Dr. Henry Mott, Jr., in paper on the adulteration of milk, said that the chief things used in adulteration were water, chalk and calomel, and that 40,- QUO, ,O0O quarts of water were drunk in milk in New York every year.
 There are seventeen school slate manufactories along the Delaware. be- tween Easton, Pa., and the Delaware Water Gap, and five along the Lehigh, in the Vicinity of Slatington, manufac. turing GO, 900 cases of school slates per annum.
 An application has been made to the Supreme Court to compel J. A. Stewart, appointed receiver of the Old Bowery State bank in New York, eighteen years ago, to file his accounts, it being alleged that $500, ,000 is still due the stockholders.
 A Lynn taxidermist has mounted seventy-t five Arctic owls since Noyem- Der, many of which were shot in Mar blehead, and 1t is estimated that over five hundred of these birds have been killed this winter on the coast between Portland and Cape Cod.
 One of the most interesting features of the celebration of the battle of Ben nington next August will be a sham fight, in which all the militia of Yer mont will take part. 1t is proposed to have as near reproduction of the old battle as possible, and already prepara- tions are being made for the event.
 Seattle, a thriving settlement of Puget Sound, was founded some four years ago by priest from Quebec. It now has 5000 inhabitants, a daily pa- per, four churches and seven schools, and on January the 1st there were six ships and three ocean steamers lying at the wharves, beside twelve other craft.
 The naval necrology for the past year shows 27 deaths, as follows: Eight rear admirals, 2 commodores, captains, commanders, lieutenant, mfdship- man, 3 cadet midshipmen, medical directors, pay directors, assistant paymaster, past assistant engineer, ; boatswains and captains in the marine corps.
 The famous horse chestnut tree in the Tuileries Garden which has received the name of "Marronier du 20 Mars," a q if waa alXuors nbcorvo1 fo n11t foy.th