Connecticut western news., 1877-03-09
NEWS IN BRIEF

colony for settlement in Texas.
 An expert Chinaman in New York can rattle off 2, 300 cigars day.
 -Whalebone which formerly sold for eleven cents pound, is now worth $2.
 The Jubilee singers who are now in England have earned $40,0OO on the present trip.
 The .Scienti6c An,erican estimates that the East river bridge will cost twenty millions.
 There are one hundred and twenty prisoners in the Charleston, $. o., jail. Only twelve of them are white.
 The four hundredth anniversary of the introduction of printing into Eng land is to be celebrated in London next June.
 The catch of smelts this winter on the Massachusetts coast is the best ever known. Some of these fish weigh as much as half pound cach.
 The fund for the family of Hay wood, the bank cashier who was mur- dered at Northfield, Minn., has reached $17,00
 In a Cambridge, Mass, evening school, is man of tifty-seven learning to read, and-one of forty working at arithmetic. . ... a .-a .rs'-e.s
 The losses by fire in the United States during 1876 were $64 ,630, 500. The losses in Massachusetts amounted to $5,4s1 400.
 It is proposed to enlarge the Lon don Geological Gardens. The collection continually increases, and the authori- ties contemplate several new buildings.
 The Minnesota farmers have taken hold of the business of planting trees in earnest. Over ten millions of cuttings were set out during the past year, most of which are doing well. I '' sh' l Forty thousand volumes is the esti- mated annual increase of the grand H. brary of Paris. The whole number of volumes now in the library is, by the latest report, 2,157,571. .-- sts., ...-.s
 Minneapolis, Minn., put about $l, l,OOO, 900 into buildings last year. The flour mills there turned about 5, ,500 900 bushels of wheat into ], JOG, 900 barrels of flour. s'A.. a n, 1'-.-
 -Baltimore's city hall has already cost over two and one-half million of dollars, and an additional outlay, of $500, ,000 is about to be made for the im- provement of one of its fronts.
 A number of gentlemen, residents of the Pacific coast, have formed com pany with capital of $10,000, ,000, gold coin, to get out lumber in Alaska for ship building and other purposes. -r
 General Hawley, president of the late Centennial Exhibition, has, accord ing to rumor, been rendered the presi- dency of the American Commission to the Paris Exhibition in 1878. 'rns..
 Miss Kate Field has returned to the editorial profession. She is regularly engaged upon the staff of that literary and political weekly, The Examiner, in London.
 The executors of the late Duke of Galliera have pald in one check the enormous sum of E100, 900 sterling, pro- bate duty on'his property in France alone. .r... ,-- .....
 Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, proposes to honor the memory of Robert Fulton by making a ten-acre park, and erecting in it colossal statue of the in- ventor. '.. ..n.. s. -7..l e,t
 The Louisiana orange crop of last year is estimated to have been 32, ,000, ,000 oranges, which would represent about 10000 trees, and worth about $200, 900 on the trees. . .. .. ,..
 A collection of old clocks and other bric-a- brac made by the late Sylvester Bonaffon, of Philadelphia, at cost of $50,0 0,000, was recently sold at auction for $4, ,S33. .. .'1
 Queen Victoria is given osmall lib- eralities. She recently sent a pound sterling for the poor people of Methold, when the Lancaster estate there yields her an income of about f35, ,OOO.
 But II miles of railroad were built in Iowa last year-nine by the Chicago, Clinton and Western. carrying the line iE to Iowa City, and two by the Daven- port and St. Paul company. i
 J. c. Jacobson, wealthy Copen- hagen brewer, has given a million of crowns to his Government for the pro- motion of mathematics, natural science, the science of language, history, and philosophy. ... s,7 John F. Chamberlain, we'll known to the sporting world as the keeper of first-class gambling house in New York and also at Long Branch, has gone into bankruptcy. His liabilities are $2l5, ,000 and his assets $17 100. --- - -.-
 In the early part of the present cen- tury John Alsop, a rich, eccentric , Englishman, left his daughters as legacy, their weight in one pound bank notes. When weighing day came the eldest got 95l, 200, the youngest 959, ,344. Joseph Bonaparte had farm in New Jersey, and the descendants of Murat in Florida. Prince Napoleon sojourned for time in New York, and } Garabaldi kept soap boilers shop on Staten Island.
 Sunday school newspapers have be- come fashionable at the antlpodes. One of these in China has 5000 subscribers, twenty-five of whom are mandarins in the city of Nankin, and it is supposed the paper is read by fifty of that class.
 The old fort at Marblehead, Mass., built during the war of the Revolution for the protection of Salem harbor is now garrisoned by large bull terrier. He never strays beyond the line of earth works, and is so fierce that all who ap- proach the fort are compelled to beat hasty retreat.
 The bride at wedding recently celebrated in Warebam, Mass, was first cousin of the bridegroom's deceased first wife, one of the bridesmaids was F daughter of the bride and wife of one [ the grooms, who was son of the bride groom, while the other bridesmaid was daughter of the groom and wife of a son ot the bride.
 The Vjrginid (Nev.) Enterprise O Jan, B., acknowledges the receipt from the Mt. Pleasant fruit and berry ranche New Castle, Placer county, Cal, of q box of fruit containing luscious straw berries, grown in the open air, and rarer still at this season of the year fresh, ripe tomatoes, with the bloom still clinging to them. a
 The Journal of Commerce states that the largest gold piece in England is the five sovereign piece, weighing % pwts 1e3/ urains. tho 1aruest in France. the