Connecticut western news., 1877-11-30
NEWS IN BRIsR

recent western tour. ,e
 Boston is considering the advisa- bility of admitting girls into the Public Latin School of that city. .,
 A shoe factory, which will employ from 150 to 200 hands, is about'to be started at Northwood, N. H.
 Among Stanley's African liscov- cries may be numbered 15, ,O00, ,OO0 here tofore unknown Philippians.
 . Samuel Lindsay, of Greene county, N. Y., has become insane from being hit on the forehead with baseball during game.
 In round numbers about 40,000 to- bacco shops exist in France, of which 2S,500 sell tobacco only, and II 300 sell stamps in addition. 3 .g.H
 At Auburn prison, New York, it costs $70 Sl per annum to support each convict. In 1876 the total earnings per convict were $5S 76.
 Clara Morris, the actress, is said to be strict church member, and Jennie June describes Lydia Thompson as a happy wife and conscientious mother.
 Amos Boynton, of Plymouth. Vt.. raised from one hill of squashes $50 pounds. Two weighed respectively 97 and 92 pounds, and the rest over 50 each. ..,..
 Grant county, Wisconsin, got rid of fifty three wolves, fifty-seven wild cats, and two lynx in twelve months, at an expense of $S4S paid for the same in bounties. .-.-. A.. r..s.f
 Russia has one hundred and thirty nine holidays in every year, and the ho f 1 l. days is supposed to be in sympathy with the Turks. .aa 1Tsf
 A single issue of the Atlanta (Ga.) Consultation announces the dearhs of two persons in tn e State who were each l03 years old, one negro, the other white woman. f"''
 A French statistical paper says that during the year 1876 there were one hundred and twenty duels in which ar lists connected with the operatic stage were concerned.
 A woman died in Fall River re- gently of excessive joy. On meeting her daughter after separation of many years, she uttered an exclamation of de- light, and fell dead. s
 Walter Wickham, of Adrian, Mich, thirteen years old, was so attached to his grandmother that when she died lately, he tried to poison himself, but 8 stomach-pump saved him. -r.-
 The New York Herdld still persists that General Grant is looming up as a candidate for the Presidency in 1880. More remarkable things than that have happened in political history.
 The old Court House in Sprinfield, Illinois, where Lincolu and Douglass used to talk, has been sold under the hammer, and must be removed within sixty days from the spot it has so long marked.
 A Gaston county, N. C., woman who gave birth to triplets two years ago, has lately improved on that achievement by producing four chill dren at one birth. All seven of the in- fants are now living. | The New Jersey Presbyterian Sy- nod has sustained the findings of the Newark Presbytery censuring Dr. See for having allowed two women of another denomination to preach in his pulpit at the regular Sunday services.
 Mrs. Esther Estes, of Port. Kent. Vt., has been blessed with 8 second eye-sight at the advanced age of eighty two years. She has been using specta- cles for forty years, but can now dis card them and read plainly the finest print. cal r',s.q7 ..- r,s5 tgtl
 ', Miss Elizabeth Brainard, who died at Middletown, Conn, recently. at the age of 80 years, came of a long-lived family. Her father. died at the age of s6, and of his other five children two died at the age of Ss, one at S2,i one at 80, and one at 76. ..,........ @ ,,tssr
 "A woman in Wareham, Mass, be- ing distrustful of saviugs' banks, has 1 hidden away in her house 800 silver half dimes, the results of many years of saving. She has two bank accounts but says she keeps a reserve in case of the banks failure. ,
 Alas! alas! Here's one Andrew Jackson arrested in Louisiana for three years persistent hog. g.stealing.t And, In this connection, 1t is estimated that there now languish in Southern peni- tentiaries enough George Washingtons to make good sized brigade.
 The Lake Shore Railroad, Company have discharged sixteen engineers eight each from the Buffalo and Erie meetings in which the subject of de- l A arrangements were discussed.
 A petrified wasp nest has been found near Eureka, New, by blasting in the solid rock forty feet below the surface of the ground. On breaking it open, some cells, larvae, and two per fectly formed wasps were found, also petrified. The rock is g granite sand stone of sedimentary formation. l General Cassius M. Clay has an es- tate of twenty-two hundred acres in Kentucky, in the centre of which stands stately mansion., He has library and many fine paintings. In this home General Clay is passing his old age with his adopted son, an intelligent young Russian, for his companion.
 There are at present on file at the Pension Office at Washington upwards of 90, 900 unsettled pension claims, and the number is constantly increasing. The Washington Union says Congress will be urged at the regular session to provide some means whereby the claims of this class can be promptly set tied. asa5r.I sg llla f-l 'E
 1t is getting to be so now that no man can travel without having the free dom of a city thrown in his face. Hon. Schuyler Colfax wentlto Macon, Mo-, the other day to lecture, and he was paraded through the town, escorted by military, and addressed by the mayor, who wound up by presenting him the freedom of the city. stl lN s,-aI
 A valuable discovery of silver has been made at St. George, N B., on an island in the river. Some United States citizens secured tho property, and have taken out several tons of ore of con- siderable value. The people of St. George are excited over the discovery, and the neighborhood, is being thor oughly searched for the precious metal.