Connecticut western news., 1877-03-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.

. Clarion County, Pa., produces $3O- GOO worth of oil daily. ................,
 -Six members of the Georgia Iegisla- ture are under 26 years of age. , Capt. Howgate's polar colonization scheme grows in favor as the heated term approaches. ,..l Hard times or not, the Georgia Legislators are complaining that they can't live on $7 day. .-... .,
 Lord John Manners proposes in- creasing the number of female clerks in the English Post office. a'
 ', Only four out of the eighteen iron furnaces on the Susquehanna, south of Harrisburg, are in blast. r.f mE- .r.. . -In Baltimore & street car conductor must deposit fifty dollars with the com pany as 8 certificate of honesty. ,r ,... t..
 Senator .Hamlin of Maine, has lately given $1 ,000 to the Colby Univer- sity at Watertown, in that State. .a'. -..
 The Illinois State Board of Agricul- ture report an estimated loss for the last year in that State through the hog chol- |. era of $s, ,000,O ,OOO. ....,., Forty years ago the average daily number of pins made in Egland for home use and export was 10000, ,0OO. NOW lS OVSOVOsOVOs "''-'
 There is an average of eight suicides
 per week in the United States, and it's better to reduce the population that way than to go to war. ,.', ,..,.i ,-r.-., ,,..
 George Wagner, citizen of Bridge port, Conn.,, has given his library of three thousand volumes as a free library
 for the Germans ih that city. q .tu. oIl
 The total indebtedness of the South- ern States, as estimated by the Committee on Adjustment is about $200, ,0O0, ,OOO, that of Virginia alone amounting to $35, ,000, ,000. '-'. 5.'7'''' -..l'5.
 pr. W. Fl. Jones of Nevada, and a companion, have recently furnished meal for the cannibals of New Guinea.
 where they were too zealously prospect ing for gold. t,..,..ss..t ..., t,s ro,.;,ar
 Arizona advices state that the Gov
 ernor has telegraphed to the Secretary of War for arms, and will call out vol unteer scouts for service against the
 hostile Apaches. rsr3 TalG airg151 Among the assets of merchant of New, York who, failed the, other day, were one hundred thousand acres of
 land on an island off the coast of Texas,
 valued at two dollars an acre. s 's#9a7ar | German educational statistics show I that in Saxony one out of l ,194 of the l total male population is in actual attend-
 ance upon university, while in Prussia
 the proportion is one to 1928. n. ...... | Richard A. Pennell is in training
 in New York for the performance of
 the extraordinary feat of holding ], 1000 1 pound cannoni in his hands while blank! cartridge is discharged from it. .Tti General Newton of New York city
 has just finished plans for new bridge
 which is to cross the Hudson at Peek skill. It will be one magnificent span
 of 1880 feet, and the floor will be 165
 feet above the water. @@"l7A -stF
 No less than 3,66S, ,5S2, 100 yards of
 cotton piece goods were exported from
 the United Kingdomin the year 1878.
 This is the largest quantity ever ex- ported in one year. 1t averages more
 than 10. 100000 yards day. a....-.
 Several savings banks in New
 Hampshire have been doing general
 banking business without paying the
 Government tax, and have been ordered
 to stop doing so. The estimated amount
 of taxes due from them is $l50,000. -
 The new Domesday Book of Great
 Bricain and Ireland gives the population
 of the United Kingdom at 2S,000, ,000. ' The number of inhabited houses is put
 at 5.212, ,932, and there are 72,I17, ,776
 acres of assessable land In the kingdom.
 -Freemasonry is growing rapidly in
 England. The Grand Lodge was es-
 abolished in 17l7, and there are now l, ,600 lodges and 500,000 members
 in England and Wales. In Scotland
 and Ireland there are over 1000 lodges.
 The youngest contributor to the
 Centennial Exhibition was Miss Mabel Warren Thyng, aged three and half ; years, the daughter of an, artist in Salem, Mass. The little woman exhi-
 bited an outline drawing of a bell and a
 pear. r .itt. ies .1 The latest figures report the total annual clip of wool in this country at , ? 1000, ,000 pounds. It is believed that the figures for 1880 will, if fair count Is secured, place this country at the head
 of the wool producing countries of the
 world. ' -.......-ef .. ...,
 When the centennarian, Father
 Boehm, died, Dr. Lovic Pierce, of
 Georgia, became the oldest Methodist minister in the United States. He is : now ninety-two, and preached for his son, Bishop George Foster Pierce, but a few Sundays ago. a.F. . . .ar-=s.....- .'.I l -Pittsburg, Pa., is to have one daily f paper less and one paper better; the
 Gazette has purchased the Commercial, and the combined patronage of the two will enable the survivor to give the reader more for his money than either could do separately. From July to December 31, 1876, r eighty-nine millions of postal cards 3 were sold in the post offices of the United States, or fifteen millions more
 than for the same period of 1876. Postal
 cards were introduced in this country
 only four years ago. Charles Dubosc, famous Parisian model, died on the 18th of January, , aged eighty. He had posed for painters . from 1894 till 1859, in which year he re- tired and made his will which was just 3 opened. He leaves all his property, r amounting to some 900,0O0 francs, tC
 the Academy of Fine Arts. -f
 7 Great preparations are being made
 at Antwerp to celebrate next August, : the 300th anniversary of the birth of
 Rubens. The musical fetes are to be on grand scale, and there will be an B artists congress, an exhibition of an- r cicnt paintings, and retrospective ex- r hibition of paintings of the Belgian s school since 1850.
 The congressional library has grown to immense proportions. The
 last annual report of the librarian shows the number of bound volumes to be over @ 3ll ,O00, to say nothing of about 100, ,00C t pamphlets. No less than 17, ,590 bound t volumes have been added during the , past year, there having been 14, 4,S22 en- ? tries in the copyright department. a,'sE ? Not many months ago, municipal , Paris deputation went to London to ex. anime the underground railway. Il has now been decided to build simi- a lar network under Paris at a cost oi i. 160, 100000 francs. The Seine will bt