Connecticut western news., 1877-07-13
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 General Butler is ma'zingIa fortune in, the 7nanufactureia of bunting for dresses. a'E7; ago'soW s.ai 51sod no
 A bouquetIof $50 tiowers.i each of a different kind, was exhibited at Geor- gia fair. e' aoau El a9E'l bah uF
 A megatlieriuinls tuslt twelve. feet long has been pried from 3 Salem, Ore gon, swamp. ro-o ,,. r.e.,.,. .-,v.T.r
 Cadet Flipper, the colored graduate of West Point, stands sixty-third in class of sixty seven. s'a1 sa srgs oG
 Sidney Lanier, the2poet,o who has been some time at Macon, Gas, has re- covered his health.'pl si@a5'' oF
 Picnic parties. at Virginia City, New, climb to the ltop, of q ,pountain 5000 feet above the sea. leYel,edr
 The Providence (R. I.D Tool Com- pany are making rifles for the Turkish Government at the rate of 4,000 day.
 A foolish cigar make sancaster county, Pa, recently wofNed ninety six hours on a.wager, withosla sleep or rest. t,...,, ,t,.,,r- ,.,r rst Mir. Alexander, Cor bet, ,ae YHfmont, who is seighty-twolye years d.'elaims to have read the Bible szthroughsseighty times. :sll9,a Hnr ts9Esa'gid lI1'
 Maud Oswald, Bafnum's best rider, proposes to try to ride three hundred miles in twenty7ssiX, hours at Dexter Park, Chicago. -a.',o1f. p. oss.y
 In strengthening the breakwater at Block Island, {the entrance to Long Island Sound more than 40, ,OQ0tons of stone are to be used. 49gtral,s srr' Gail Hamilton divides the National Government intoa four ,branches-the Legislative, the Executive, the. Judicial and Stanley Matthews, ,',,.,J
 MT. F. Nj. Sherbehn, of ,Lykens, Pa, ,enjoys the proud distinction of being the heaviest man in the coal region. His weight is 3S0 pounds. asaF, .isgo
 The citizens of.Areadia, in the par ish of Bienville, La, elected few days ago fifteen town officials, and the whole number of votes cast was 13. no
 Coal mining is becoming quite an important interest in sAlabamar From a yield of 4,O00 tons lD 1875 pthe product of her mines grew to ti65, ,0005 tons in 1876. .l..s, g9yo1 .!rf 9u ,aaw boa iad
 Texas Jack is going topg,titie a party of Englishmen during q. three m onths' hunting trip to the Yellowstone. The party will visit the scene of the Custer massacre. ,.' '.arl,l,', ia, t',Tr
 The PennsylvanialRailf0adI Com pany have commenced the erection of new bridge across the Susquehanna at Rockville, near Harrisburg. The bridge will cost $1 ,500,000, ..r.,....,o.
 A Vermont, farmer, Mro A. B. Bishop, of Jericho, has set, out 700 elm trees along the highway, bordering on his land. Future generations will rise up and call him blessed. i,s,og5y
 -Rockport, Arkansas. county ,gTexas, is going into the green tuEt1e! canning business. There are already quite number of cans, thereabouts, and now search is beirg made for the turtles.
 The banners and armorial bearings of the original Knights Companions of ! the Order Of the Garter, when founded by Edward IL |, in 1884, have been hung in St. George's Hall in Windsor Castle.
 ,---At .lthe 5last target-firing with an eighty-ton gun, at Shoeburyness,5 Eng land, the target cost $50, ,OO0, and each projectile knocked to pieces one-fourth Of it, or $7, 800 worth of iron and steel. '. -Betsey Hudley, of St Louis, waited sixty years to get married, and directly after they ceremony her husband went ' enough motto be in such hurry next time. .-, .,..f, l Lydia Thompson is seen daily I driving her pair of Arabian ponies In ,] Regents Park, London. Her collection of jewels is valued at more than $l00,- sl 00O, one necklace alone having 3cost 1 $370CO. ......-,,.,...., .,',,.'a,,,
 The Boston Journal is ready to admit hn ,3f fct f,, New England might be reduced to seven or eight, and the salaries and fees of the twenty-seven or twenty eight collectors etc., be saved. g, ,-,t ..,.[, -.-.,,,4
 The "big tree," as it is called, which grew in Calaveras county, Cal., con- tained 500, ,000 feet of inch lumber, and was felled by five men working twenty two and one-half days, making ll2 days labor. f, l. .,.,i..,r, ,,, ,i.,,,,-, "a ,. ..st,so
 At Wheatland, Cal, there, are about $50 acres in early potatoes, the estimated yield of which is five tons to the acre. This gives, (with fifteen sacks T to the ton) 26, ,250 sacks as the total pro- l duct In that sectlon.r fHa ",17udluE
 Glass bottles were first made in England about 1888. The art of making bottles and drinking glasses was known to the Romans eighteen huudi ed years ago, as they have been found among the ruins of Pompeii. ''7' 'sif'"9'0
 The tide of Chinese immigration has set in again. Over 1000 Chfnamen landed at San Francisco during May, and more are comingI The anti -Uoolie editors raise their hands in pious hor- TOT. and groan unceasingly.rp .,s,.,,
 A Georgia man named Thomas Henry is about attempting the feat Of exploring an unknown cave half way down the side of 3 precipice:o :on Stone Mountain. To do this he will have 10 be lowered from tue top by a rope r, 100 feet long. ,..-. .-,, .,s'-'...-.f, ,,,=,.
 The compositors in the office of the Staffordshire7 Ad0ertiser, an English country paper, are commemorating the Z, Tooth anniversary of the introduction ' of printing into England, by .fornlng themselves into. Caxton Club and f establishing'a library for the craft. ~,
 Colorado is said to be building more railroads to day than any other Western State or Territory, and her mines and farms are being developed more oapidly than for years past. In addition tnoall , this the season of 1877 promisesto, be marked by an unusual amount or tourist travel.
 A surveying party who have been measuring the principal elevations in Connecticut, have found that the highest land is Mount Brace, in the extreme northwestern corner, whichis ], 300 feet high. Next came Bear Mountain, 3 ,250 |; Buck Mountain, 2,150, and Bald Peak, l ,996-all in Salisbury. ty+a,ss1f Queen Victoria has completed her 5Sth year. Only twelve others of the thirty-sight reigning sovereignsa of Christendom have attained this age. The oldest of them is the Pope, who is