Connecticut western news., 1877-05-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.

A man in Abingdon, Va, has pet fish that follows him around like dog.
 -Gov. Nichols of Louisiana lost an arm and leg in the Confederate ser vice.
 Rev. Talmage, of Brooklyn, breaches to three thousand hearers every Sunday.
 MT. John l.. Lick, will receive $525, ,000 from his fathers estate of $s, ,Ooo,OO
 It cost Krupp, tlre great German gunmaker, $120,00 for the Centennial Exposition.
 Butter was in use 4,000 years ago. Some of the original stock appears to have held over.
 25O quarts of straw berries on lot forty by fifty feet last season.
 -Famines are not rare in India. Within the past sixty five years there have been six in that afflicted country.
 Paris has 112,0 dogs on which taxes are paid, and 1t is estimated that there 40, 900 more which escape taxa tion.
 The present debt of New Orleans is $22, ,O00, ,000; that of Charleston is A,- 672, ,563, and that of Savannah $3,800,- 640.
 Emperor William, of Germany, has eighty-eight decorations. He wears the insignia of very near all the orders of Europe.
 -There are seventy-fve insurance companies in the city of New York. This number embraces good, bad and indifferent.
 Thomas Carlyle has been chosen unanimously President of the Edin- burgh Philosophical Institution for the ensuing year.
 Capt. Isaac Bassett, the principal door-keeper of the Senate for many years, entered the service of that body as page in 1882.
 Peter Goelet, the millionaire, keeps his COW in fine pasture in the heart of New York city, and his milk costs him $S 8 gallon. .-'
 They are fencing off the Yosemite Valley, erecting barricades, building walls, and prepsring to make every patriot pay cash down for all he sees.
 There are $500 street lamps in Is- lington, England, and, on an average, there are 1000 squares of glass broken Tn these lamps every week by street boys.
 Gen. Robert E. Lee was one of the vestrymen of St. Johns church, Brook lyn, in 1S42. He was at the time captain in the Engineer Corps, and stationed st Fort Hamilton.
 
 -Secretary Schurz has detailed one of the lady clerks in his department, q native of this country, who was educated in Germany, to take charge of his Ger man correspondence.
 It Is stated that it cost about $93, ,OOO to get the steamship Amerique off "the beach at Long Branch" This is about at the rate of $1 900 day for the entire time she was stranded. A Boston firm, which for a time turned out Is, ,000 feet of blue glass a week Is shortening sail. The curious have all the blue glass panes they can experiment with at present.. Ex-Governor Sprague, of Rhode Island has gone to South Carolina to | start up certain industries, in which he is interested, and which have been in a state of suspension for long time. Cincinnati boasts of centenarian in the person of Mrs. Angela Onetto, better known as Podesta, who is in the l09th year of her age. This venerable lady is probably the oldest person in Ohio.
 Elder Evans, the leader of the Le- banon Shakers, has started a graveyard on @ new plan. The graves are to be fNNn 1fxy fonf o,sk xx,fk over each, so that in time there will be a handsome grove.
 It Is stated that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company proposes beautifying it's roadway in the State of New Jersey by planting shade trees at the different stations and switch houses along the line of the Amboy division.
 The prospect of foreign tour in which Geo. Francis Train, Geo. Alfred Townsend, George, the Count Joannes, Eli Perkins, Sergeant Bates, and Wen dell Phillips, were to jointly partiGi- pate, we are grievd to say, has been abandoned.
 At Lohara, in the Chauda District, Central Province, India, there is a hill of magnetic ore which would probably yield 500, 900 tons of iron without going below the surface. The ore is wonder fully pure and contains nearly 70 per cent. of Metallic iron. General George B. Mcclellan has declined the invitation to deliver the oration before Post Watraus, of Bing- hamton, on Decoration Day. He had previously declined an invitation to perform similar service at the National Soldiers Home, in Dayton, Ohio. There are now in operation in New Hampshire 1000 miles of railroad, which cost $35, ,O00, 900 and their net profits are $1 ,000, 900, or about three per cent. The value of the roads now Is about $15, ,000, 900 and large proportion of them do not pay one per cent. on their cost. A. T. Weidle, bookkeeper in St. Louis, has been missing since Novem- Der. He is Cor was) native of Penn sylvania. There is nothing wrong in his accounts; on the contrary. he left about SIG, ,000 in bonds and money in the hands of parties in the city, and some valuable real estate. .-.. .. Mrs. Samuel Colt, of Hartford, Conn.,, has conveyed the property In Hartford, known as the Church of the Good Shepherd, including the lot on which the church stands, to ''the Trus- tees of Donations and Requests for Church Purposes" of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Mrs. Colt reserves the right to manage the property during her lifetime.