Connecticut western news., 1877-06-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-The National Grange report 198 granges in Oregon, with membership of s,544.
 A bone picker in Schenectady gave $l00, recently toward the erection of & church edifice.
 The English Quakers have become reduced to about 17,000 persons from 60,000 century ago.
 It is stated that there are at present 70, 900 spindles silent in the Belfast, Ire land, linen trade district.
 A Crawford county (Pa.) woman recently gave birth to triplets, all girls; weight, three pounds each.
 Among the late important state events in Europe are the deaths of Bis marck's dog and the pope's cat.
 An Oswego county, (N. Y.) paper issued an extra to announce the killing of big black bear near Sandy Creek.
 The author of "Betsy and l are Out" has become rich from the sale of his poems. MT. Carleton is still bache- Tor.
 -The Dominion Government has granted $25,000 to the Icelanders in Manitoba, who are in a starving condi- tion.
 Frederick Rankin. of Maine, is seventeen years old, six feet six and an eighth inches high, and weighs 162 pounds. .. ,a...
 Moses Aaron Hopkins, of Utica, is the first colored student who ever graduated from the Auburn Theological Seminary.
 In England, in 1874, there were 5S, ,O6O,OO0 in 1875 there were SC, 900, 900, and in 1876 there were 6i ,450, ,000 bushels of malt used. t... -Russia's public debt IS about $1,- 75O ,OOO.O .O0O, and is able to contract loans. Turkey, with debt of only $950, ,000, ,0O0, has no credit.
 -Dr. Aver, the patent medicine man, is insane and worth $15, 5,000,O00. This will be 8 welcome contribution to the legal profession. ..r....
 Mir. James Gordon Bennett has leased fine estate in England, in the heart of the hunting country, and, it is said, intends to expatriate himself.
 Dallas, Texas, has an $S0,O00 ice machine, which produces ice cakes thirty feet long by six wide, weighing from 10000 to 12, ,000 pounds each.
 There are 242 lodges of Odd Fellows in California, with a membership of 20, POI on the 31st of December last; paid for relief and charity last year. SAC, ,1S6 66. -e .. "A Missouri wedding party on a bridal tour last week consisted of the groom, aged eighty-five years, the bride aged seventy-six, and a son of the for mer, aged sixty-one
 The Emperor William is glazier by trade, and the Grown Prince com- ] positor. Of the latter's sons Prince Henry is learning engraving and Prince Waldemar book-binding. .. "A curious case of man being struck by lightning occurred at the Thames gold field, New Zealand, the fash having to travel down tunnel 800 feet in length before reaching him.
 -The Dismal Swamp canal is to be sold by auction to the highest bidder in Norfolk, Va., next August. The work cost over $1 ,500, ,00o but itis not expected to bring more than fiftieth part of that sum. ...l .., - T The authorities at the United States military prison at Leavenworth, Kan sas, propose to G Ganufacture all the shoes needed by the army, and the necessary machinery is being put in for that purpose. .6 The Chicago Tribune says that ex- Governor c. c. Washburne, of Wiseon- sin, made quarter of a million by the late rise in flour. This was all made in | his milling business in the most legiti- mate fashion. -i "A wealthy man in Salisbury, N. O., on conviction of ill-using his wife, has been sentenced to Imprisonment for six months and to pay fine of $500, and put l xJc C.. ls T T.. vior for twelve months. '. A Boston importer bought two car goes of sugar, amounting to 5, ,152, 900 pounds, some three weeks since, and sold it at an advance of about one cent a pound soon afterward. His profits were upward of $51 ,0O0.
 Mime. Desplatoir, a modiste of Paris, has got things down to & fine point. She makes dresses that must be put on at 3.15 and worn till 4. They must not be donned minute before or doffed minute after the prescribed time.
 Colorado, the youngest of the States, contains more than double the number of square miles in New York; and Texas is more than twice as large as Colorado. The figures are: New York, AZ ,000 square miles; Colorado, 105, ,000; Texas, PAY ,000.
 An old stove furnace in one of the most ancient houses in Berne, Switzer- land, was being demolished, when the workmen found inside of it a veritable treasure in pieces of five francs-that is | to say in crowns of Brabant. The total value was about $6,000.
 --Bastrop, La., has taken the palm from Chicago. A divorce suit was re- gently filed in the county court, in one hour after decree granting divorce was entered on the minute books, and the divorced man was married to an. other woman the same night.
 The marriage of a daughter Joseph Jefferson with Farjeon, the En- glish novel writer, will take place next month. The pair will pass their honey moon in Switzerland, where MT. Far icon will finish new novel, and they l will visit the United States next au- tumn.
 | It is told that MT. Caleb Cushing's I great delight is to go fishing; further more, that work is his idol, his rest change of work. His income as law yer in Washington used to be not less than $50, 1000. He returns there now to practice his profession at seventy-three years of age.
 | Mir. Ruskin announces that he has, at the request of a few Sheffield work men, authorized the investment of E1, 200 in an estate of thirteen acres of land near Sheffield whereupOn the workmen may spend what spare hours they have, and for which they agree to pay three per cent. ' Judah P. Benjamin, the Confederate Secretary of State. is one of the most popular lawyers in London, and has an | q la Ia