Connecticut western news., 1877-05-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Boston is striving to get the bulk of the beef-shipping business to England in her own hands.
 A chair ot homeopathy is to be es- tablished in the Iowa State University during the summer.
 The new Chinese coin is the tif- tieth part of cent i4 value, and five pounds are equal to nickel.
 An average of no, ,oO0 letters is daily received at the Boston postoffice. A year ago the average was 9l ,OO0 letters a day.
 Prof. Seelye, the scholar in politics, has given his salary to the town of Am herst, the money to be expended in sidewalks.
 It is claimed that $50 .000 worth of hogs have died during the past year of cholera in circle of five miles around Homer, Ill.
 It is said that there are more Bap- tist churches and members in Phlladel- phia than in any other city in the world, save London.
 The Graphic is the only paper in this country which can illustrate boat race 5000 miles away on the same day OI US happening.
 The Pennsylvania railroad com- pany is having 125 refrigerator cars constructed for the carrying of meat from Texas to New York.
 The boats of the Royal National Life Boat Institution, of England, last year saved 515 lives, besides assisting numerous vessels in distress. .5
 Judge Peleg Sprague of Boston is the oldest ex-United States senator now living. He was member of the Maine Legislature fifty-six years ago.
 The manufacture of silk in the United States increased from two mill lion dollars worth in 1860, to twenty five million dollars worth in 1876.
 It is stated as fact that the Palmer House, Chicago, has over $90 ,000 worth of bronzes distributed about the hotel as ornaments and embellishments.
 The last China steamer from San Francisco took ten thousand barrels of California flour. China is said to be rapidly substituting wheat for rice.
 A glass factory at Honesdale is fill ing an order for 72 900 hand lamps, for Japan. The same concern has recently shipped l15,0O0 fruit jars to California.
 The debris of the palace car "Pala- tine" that went through the Ashtabula bridge, has been made up into walking canes by thrifty individual named Smith.
 The author of "Home, Sweet Home," never had 8 home; and George Mcdonald, who has eleven children, is the author of "Annals of Quiet Neigh borhood."
 The Permanent Exhibition at Philadelphia is an assured success. Every foot of space has been applied for, and half as much again could have been disposed of. ...... ..s
 The Russian czar, during the 22 years of his reign, has not indorsed & single capital sentence, although there were 222 such in the period from 1855 to 1860 alone.
 The colored people of Raleigh, N. O., have called convention on the first Monday of May to devise some plan for bettering their condition by coloniza- tion or otherwise.
 A private polar expedition will leave New York in the early summer, ostensibly for trading purposes, but in reality to search for records of the Franklin expedition. .-........
 The male members of the Swedish colony in Arostook county, Me-, were all naturaliZed several days ago. The colony now numbers about 600 persons, and is said to be fiourishing.
 Capt. Eben Pierce and Relmar Eggers, both of New Bedford, Mass., have jointly invented breech-loading whaling gun, which will throw lance 750 feet with destructive effect.
 Of the coast of Virginia, about five miles from the mainland, is an island upon which roam numbers of ponies as wild as the mustang. How or when they settled there is not known.
 The city council of Danville, H., prohibited the boys from running vel ocipedes upon the sidewalks. The boys in spirit of retaliation petitioned the councils to prohibit the wheeling of baby wagons. .l.
 One of the rarest books printed in the nineteenth century is the first edi- tion of the "Book of Mormon" pub- lished at Palmyra, N. Y., in 1880. Lord Macaulay tried in vain for years to pro- cure copy of it. "a
 Hannibal Hamlin, since Simon Cameron's retirement, is the oldest senator, reckoning from the time he entered that body, but his service has not been continuous. Senator Anthony is tho oldest senator in continuous ser- vice. ,..
 The Baroness Mayer de Rothschild lately died on board her yacht at Nice. She had been sailing about the Mediter- ranean all winter in the hope of bene- fitting her health. Her only child, Mile. Hannah de Rothschild, inherits the estate.
 Joseph Bonaparte. King of Spain, once possessed ponderous set of mili- tary maps of France and Belgium, and these have just been presented to the University of California, by MT. Mall laird, of San Rafael. One of the map cases is perforated by bullet.
 Mrs. Frost Thorne, the widow of the gentleman who was drowned in the disaster last summer, intends to return to the stage. She is & daughter of E. l.. Davenport, and will take back her maiden name of Lily Vining Daven- port when she resumes her old profess sion.
 -0uuRo o' O' hdstluSS, oA oan Eau~ cisco, has offered to deposit $100, 1000 with the Treasurer of California, on that the State shall promise to pay per centum year forever to the University of California, the amount thus received to be divided into two parts, one of $4, ,000 and the other of $3 ,0O0, the former to be used at first to purchase books for law library, and the latter for a professors salary.
 The Central Pacific Railroad Com pany has lately arranged to have 40,- poo Eucalyptus Globulas trees set out along the 500 miles of the right of way of the company. This is only the first as it will require about 300, ,000 of the trees for the 800 miles of valley where they are to be cultivated. The immediate object. of the plan is to