Connecticut western news., 1877-06-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Prof Agassiz is to be referee of the Yale-Harvard boat race.
 A canary bird, P years old, died recently at Northampton, Mass.
 -Ex- Governor Swann, of Maryland, has given $s9,000 for two cottages at Newport.
 The municipal judge at Rutland. Vt., gets $500 year, but then he had only one case to try in 1876.
 A party of men are to go from Port land, Me-, to Texas, intending to take up large tract and build village. . Notwithstanding MT. Bennett's ab- sence in Europe, polo is to be feature among the summer games at Newport.
 The State of Illinois gives all tramps until July to get out of the State, or secure situations in government em- ploy.
 In 1883 General Sam Houston ore dicted that Texas would have popula- tion of 0,000,00 before the close of the century.
 -Petrifed clans one thousand feet above the sea level have been found on N. c. Irvin's ranche in the Rocky Mountains.
 -Pere Hyacinthe has an audience of 4 1000 persons every Sunday. He breaches in the amphitheatre of the Chateau d'Eau at Paris.
 Memphis has $500, 900 invested in the manufacture of oil from cotton seed, an industry that was scarcely known until after the war.
 | President William H. Vanderbilt has established library and reading room at Albany for the benelt of his railroad workmen. ne
 The "oldest Mason in the United States" died in four different cities re- gently, and there can't be more than fifty or sixty of him left.
 George W. Townsend of Boston has bought the wreck of the Antwerp steam ship Rusland, as she lies on the beach at Long Branch for $9,000. s
 In Central Georgia the annual aver age cost per head of keeping sheep is ffty-four cents; average cost of raising a pound of wool is six ceEts. General K. T. Dent, who was for merly attached to the Executive Man sion, now commands detachment of troops at St. Augustine, Fla.
 The largest alligator ever seen in that portion of Georgia about Macon was killed in small lake last week, and l Su SiSho hCOO HI ACHktus
 There are 1,7OO newspapers pub lished in the United Kingdom, and there is an average of about fifty cases for libel during the year, or one week. Mir. w. H. Smith stated in the English House of Commons that the to. tai expenses of the Tichborne prosecu- tion amounted to f60,075, or about $500, 1875. The name of General w. s. Han cock is suggested as one of the commis- sion to be appointed to visit Europe for , the purpose of observing the Russo Turkish war. .- ' The Prince of Wales lately made the fastest time on record from London to Paris. It occupied only seven hours and three-quarters, including stoppages at Folkstone and Amiens. . -Mantua has just awakened to con- , viction that she ought to raise 8 statue to her illustrious son Virgil. She has taken some little time to arrive at this conclusion, seeing that Virgil died 800 years ago.
 The $3, 900 lobster in the New York Aquarium is dead. He represented the sole proceeds of three expeditions that were sent out to the Bermuda Islands in 
 an angel fish. ~ The rapid increase of steamers on the chain of the great Northern lakes is the feature of the lake trade during the last three years. The number employed in 1876 IS reported to have been SS5, their tonnage being 190,367. @ Allen Hannah of Jersey City was married recently to Miss Hannah Allen, Miss Hannah Allen is now Mrs. Hannah Hannah, aud is, perhaps, the only wo- man in the world who can spell her name backward and forward with the , same letters. , An old mill site in Nevada was re- gently purchased for $100, and the seller considered that he had the best of the ] bargain. Since then the purchaser has taken out about $10,000 worth of gold and silver, and the place was being worked at last accounts.
 Jennie Collins, who conducts in
 Boston a working-girls' home called , Boffin's Bower, often receives letters from Pacific Coast men seeking wives; and she says she has actually arranged several marriages, after satisfying her. self of the good character of the appli- cant.
 There are sixty pension agencies in | Cl0 OUlISu DGdGSS. 1u0 duHuAl G1- pense of disbursing the pension appro- priation through these is about $500 1000. It is proposed to reduce the number to twenty, and to so reorganize the system that the convenience of the per aioners will not be interfered with. -Alexandrople, where the Russians have entered Asiatic Turkey, is about twenty miles from Kars, and is strong Russian fortress, situated at great elevation, built on the ruins of the old town of Gomeer. Alexandrople is one ? of the coldest places in the Russian em- pire, men and animals frequently freezing to death there.
 There is sad to be paper church actually existing near Berlin. winch can contain nearly 1000 persons. It is cir cular within, octagonal without. The reliefs outside and statues within, the roof, ceiling and the Corinthian capitals are papier-mache, rendered waterproof by saturating in vitriol, lime water, whey and white of eggs. rs The postal telegraph of England is great financial failure. Although the receipts last year were $6l6, 300 over the expenditures, still the interest on the debt created in establishing the system
 was over $95S, 155 more than the amount of receipts over the expenditures. In four years the deficiency has amounted to over four millions of dollars.
 A. brass eagle from the tip of a United States flagstaff was recently picked up on the Chickamauga battle field. It belonged to a regiment of the Twenty first Army Corps-probably from Ohio-and was lost in the stubborn fighting of Sunday, when the whole Federal army was massed under Thomas. Seven skulls were found