Connecticut western news., 1877-07-20
NEWS IN BRIEF

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 l A big Newfoundland dog guards the Adams Express packages at Hart l ford. g p si.ts s.. iin ui slaifa.s Ftts W ---It is stated that ten memb ars of the United States Senate are printers by trade. ..,, n t,.o ,'., ..,-.''At 1 : Of the $25o, ,doo needed by the Drew Theological Seminary, $l1S, 900 has been pledged. .@' aio": r.''>l '.f y7a es..'"
 "-Mormonism is now overi47 years old, having been born on the 9th of April, 1880. ... .rr....t, .I...- ,.rs,. 1 q'---A column of masonry in Kansas marks the geographical centre of .h~ 1 United States. -, ~ -The oldest Freemason in France Is | dead. His name was Sixti-his age one hundred years. an G1i.a sTaaG The Paris Exhibition works are pushed on with vigor. More than BOO men are employed. a...t .a, 'r
 ~-rhe inventory of the estate of the late Augustus Hemenway, of Boston, footed up to $S,S91, ,17S.95. r,.. ..s...s, | The late William Palm, of St. Louis, left $1OO, ,0O0 by his will to the Washing ton University of that city. | A French velocipedist, M. Emile
 
 23 hours, including stoppages. 4-.a The 30. 900 acres of rich public lands in Aroostook county, Me-, are being rapidly taken up by immigrants. -Helmbold has purchased the old | residence of Daniel Drew, in New York, and transformed. it into gorgeous drug store. ,. ..sa,.a i..-,.... ...0. -, z...,. Fig culture in Florida, which has been greatly neglected since the war, | is now attracting the attention of capi- | talists. s. ,T,>. -'a-s 3a - A correspondent of the Jownas de | GeRere states that the medical staff of the Turks does not exceed one per l ,O00 strength. .... .., ....,.'. -.
 They are very proud in San Fran cisco of their Hack company with great stable, 100 teams, and a capital of $250, 1000. m i5..st sf.t. .y.a ,'tt i6ti}
 Sanford Doud, of Iowa, is the father of thirty-two children. He Is seventy years of age, and his baby girl is six weeks old. North Carolina has paid for fertiIi- gers within the last twelve months S,0OO, ,0O0; Georgia, $2, ,000, ,000; Virginia probably more. .la.r .ig1Q as ,re.5
 The assessed value of personal pro- perty in San Francisco Is $47, 7,076, ,365 this year, falling off of $7, FAC, ,52S as compared with 1876. 7 fea 'Ah3
 Tt is estimated that the school fund of the State of Texas will be $30, ,0o0, 900 when the school lands are all sold. and the annual income will be $2 ,S00, ,000. z Australia is about the only country that gives subsidies to steamship lines | 4 10 f,1uf erixy a new line to be run to the East Indies.
 "A man in Cobb county, Ga., says his bees support him. A good, healthy hive of bees can give almost any man as much business as he cares to attend | to. 5.' .,t,t rrr.y Efs
 l MT. Bancroft Davis has resigned his position as American Minister to Germany, and is now making prepara- tions to leave Berlin early in the au- tumn. -si~ N E.' ' t{f tA
 Philadelphia street-car companies paid over l2 per cent. dividends last year, and stockholders mourn at the thought that 1t will be 99 years before another centennial.
 -Lorrilard & Co.,, of New York, have secured the army contract for navy plug. It takes 900 pounds or mora. France has made it's contract for tobacco with Baltimore houses. i!ai ynqlt
 An alligator eight, feet. long, slain in the Twin lakes, Florida, when cut open was found to contain turtle six inches across, as lively as if he never had been swallowed. t9 stfFp Among those taking premiums at I the recent Australian Exhibition were number of American firms having their headquarters in Philadelphia and other cities of the United States.
 Miss Agatha Ives, an American, has been awarded two medals fin the seminary of nuns tn Rome, for superior knowledge in the Eastern dialects and languages, and for compositions in the living tongues. .,, ,...,,,, ....5.., '. n, Four hundred and twelve thousand seals have been caught at the New foundland fishery this season, making the year a good one as to number and weight, but the depreciation in value reduces 1t to an average one. l MT. w. w. Corcoran, of Washing ton, is the most generous and judicious of givers. He has ordered his agent to distribute $20,0 among the poor men and women recently thrown out Of em- ployment by the reduction in the Gov- ernmehC departments. H..t .a a MT. Mullett's postoffice at Hartford, has already cost $455, ,000 and will prob- ably require $250,00O more to finish 1t. The building of the Hartford Fire In surance Company, near by, which is larger than the postoffice and made of better material, cost but $l75, 900.
 -Sharpsburg and Eta, two small towns on the Allegheny, opposite Pitts burg, are endeavoring to omakearrange- ments with the municipal authorities of the "Smoky City" to draw their water supply from the new reservoir the Pittsburgers have just completed.
 The Chicago Public Library con- tains, 51. .40S volumes, and is valued at $S0, ,000. The expenses of the year just closed were $25, $50. There are 40,059 names on the list of borrowers, and the number of visitors to the library and reading room during the year was 750, ,000. -.... ..,......r r.'.....--s..,.-.,
 The international conference on the question of resuming work on the, St. Gothard tunnel announces that $S ,00O,a 900 are still required to complete the undertaking. Of this amount they pro- pose that Germany contribute $2,000- GOO; Italy, $2, ,000, ,000; Switzerland, $1,- COG, ,000, and the company $2, 400, 900.
 At Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., three new scholarships have been added to those already established -one of $1O, ,000 presented by J. B. and J. M. Cornell, of New York; one of $5, ,000 by MT. Clarkson Mott Potter, and one of $5, ,000 from the estate of the late John McClelland, in addition to his earlier bequest of $lS.000. st
 The streets of London, if placed in one line, would form an avenue of7 ,00O miles in length. In the daily cleansing