Connecticut western news., 1877-06-15
NEWS. IN BRIEF

The West Point graduates this year will number seventy-seven-the largest class on record. .r..
 Plenty of water is now found in Russell county, Kansas, where none could be found five years ago.
 The sheep growers of Ventura county California, are driving their flocks to Texas, where the pasturage is good.
 Guatemala has 900 miles of tele- graph line in operation, and several hundred miles more is soon to be com- pleted. ur..
 In 1901 Great Britain had 10,000,- 900 people. Ireland 5,000,00 Now the former has 27,OO0.00O the latter D. 500,000. ."...,t ,t..o......
 A square league of land in the Argentine Republic devoted to the cul- ture of the grape, yields about $1 ,500, ,O00 per annum.
 Agnes Ethel, who is now in Italy, offers to contribute $200 toward the erection of monument over Matilda Heron's grave.
 -The Illinois Legislature has passed a bill compelling hotel keepers to keep a supply of wire rope ladders in rooms above the second story. 1rrv
 A Georgetown, Fla, man is digging Irish potatoes that yield at the rate of POO bushels per acre. They Were planted in the middle of January.
 The cost of the production of cotton in the South is greatest in Mississippi and Louisiana, while it Is least Tn Texas, South Carolina and Georgia. ,-
 The tobacco crop of Tennessee this year will be larger than usual, and the prospects are that the acreage will con- tinue to increase for some years.
 East Freetown, Mass, has hermit, Joshia Demorandville, aged S2. He lives in a little shanty on the outskirts of the town, and makes mats and brooms for living.
 Berlin, the capital of Prussia, has ninety-four primary schools, which give employment to S61 male teachers, BIO female teachers and 342 sewing mis- tresses. ... ga4 ..f
 A new church congregation is being collected in New Haven, and one of the conditions is that the members shall wear their everyday clothes to the meetings. . w18 &l@
 Russia has l6, ,16O. .OOO horses, the United States 9,504, 200, but the propor- tion in the former is but 227. .05 to each l ,OO0 of the population, while it's 245.16 in the latter.
 A bill has passed the Illinois Legis- lature authorizing railroad conductors to stop trains and put of everybody playing cards for money and using ob- scene language.
 The Germans doing business in St. Dnfn hrrr h hnvr Insl TI-.s versity of Dorpat, Russia, Bismarck scholarship exclusively for the benefit | of German students. rF f.s .,a
 The 'Big Bonapza'' yielded $2O,- 10S, ,95S gold aud $25. .700, ,682 silver from it's discovery till September 30, 1876. In this deposit the usual preponderance of gold over silver is reversed. | The captain of the supernumeraries at the California Theatre died recently in the hospital. After he was dead they found $6O, ,O00 in gold coin belonging to him, and no relatives.
 Rose Eytinge, having discarded her last husband, George H. Butler, has now worked a pair of slippers for Thur low Weed. The dear old gentleman was always pet of the girls. ... Prince Henry, of Prussia, the second son of the Crown Prince, has l just joined the Prussian corvette Niobe. He is the first member of the dynasty who enters upon a naval career early in | life. +f | -Dr. W. H. Russel has had glory enough as a war correspondent, and Dr. Charles Austin, who was recently in this country, will be the chief cor respondent of the London Times in Tur- key. ..a rawn# "e sa.T.s
 At Chesterton, England, recently, a woman who undertook to walk thousand miles in a thousand hours, was stopped by the authorities after she had been two or three days on the track. .....f
 There are in the town of Cavendish, Vt., twenty-eight people by the name of Spaulding who are taxpayers. Many years ago 1t was reported that seventy of that name were legal voters in that town.
 Oregon has a new expedient for keeping her citizens sober. Every man who drinks is obliged to take out license costing $5. It is penal offense for any liquor dealer to sell drink to an unlicensed person.
 -The teller ot bank in Great Bar rington, Mass, stole $24, ,000 in 1871, and paid $1 ,500 to man who helped him to escape. The bank officers lately ob- tained proof of the facts, and by law suit have recovered the $1, 300. Bishop Payne, of the Southern Methodist Church, Is 77 years old; Bishop Kavanagh is 75; Bishop Wight man, 69; Bishop Doggett, 67; Bishop Pierce 66; Bishop Keener, 56; Bishop Marvin 54, and Bishop MoTyeire, 5s. --Thaddeus Stevens left LOGO to- ward the building of new Baptist church at Lancaster, Pa., although he was not Baptist. It served as a whole some stimulus to the Baptists. They got more money and now the church is finished. Germany furnishes annually I20, 900 fox skins, 10000 pine martens, 60, 1000 stone martens, 280,000 pole cats. 5000 otters, 5000 badgers and 60, 900 hare skins. In rabbit skins she sends out only 300, ,000 to France's 600,000. The list closes with 100000 domestic cat skins.
 In the Philadelphia Permanent Ex- hibition building a large gallery for vocal and instrumental concerts has been put up capable of holding 2,500 persons. Opposite the gallery an area has been left open for accommodating 8, 900 spectators at a single pop, if they should come. a... ...
 A trapper in Colorado caught l3 silver grey foxes, with a number of other fur bearers. The pelts of the sil- yer greys were sold in Chicago at from $75 to $50 each. These animals are very rare, and it is seldom that so large number of silver grey pelts are brought to market in a single lot.
 The Boston Herdld says that one of thR most rasnactahl Iahxsinia ia n in that