Connecticut western news., 1877-09-07
NEWS IN BRIEF

"OIbu clCN0u uOlldTS more On IIlc nun dred than gold dust.
 Lake Superior is 637 feet above sea- level, Huron and Michigan 590, Erie 565, and Ontario 232.
 Mistress Martha Washington's old house in Fredericksburg, has been sold for the small sum of $l ,225.
 Next years tuition in the Univer- sity of Mississippi will be free. The State appropriation is $3O,OOO.
 A man in Chambersburg, Ill.,, has been sued for destroying property by splitting tobacco juice on the floor of a church.
 The historical oak, under which, it is said, Wesley preached his first ser mon in America, is still standing at Frederick, Ga.
 A Hartford, Conn.,, business firm employs an equal number of men and women clerks, and pays the women the larger salaries.
 John Raymond, the oldest resident of New Canaan, Conn.,, over 95 years of age, remembers when he had Wm. II. Seward for pupil.
 Mrs. Cynthia Russell, of Bridgeport, Vt., who is eighty-one years of age, has woven two hundred yards of carpet within the last six weeks.
 General D. H. Hill, the implacable Rebel, has removed from North Caro- lima, having accepted the Presidency of the Industrial College of the State of Arkansas.
 The canal at Augusta, Ga., is now navigable by boats propelled by steam, and there is every evidence that the old system of canal boat propulsion is at an end.
 The farmers of Southwestern Mis- | souri have prodigious crop of peaches on their hands, and do not know what to do with them. No sufficient market is available.
 The old Post Office property in New York, which was costing the Govern ment $3, 900 year to watch and keep in order, has been rented for $5 900 for an auction mart. A man in Hopkinton, N. H., was so shocked by the news of the drowning of his son that he was cured of severe attack of rheumatism from which he had.long suffered.
 The late w. B. Ogden leaves an es- tate variously estimated at from $5, ,OOO,- GOO to SIC, ,000, ,000, most of which Is in the West. He was not married till he was seventy years of age. An observatory has just, been erected on the highest point of Mount Equinox, in Vermont, by the United States Coast Survey. .|... An American palace car has been | placed on the railroad between Brussels and Gaud, in Belgium, and receives abundant custom. The dining room ac- comodates twenty at table.
 During the years 1S37, 1888 and 1859 not a single application for patents was presented at the Patent Office. In 1876, 2l ,63S applications were made and +, ,9S7 patents were issued.
 The Sovereign Emigration Colony of Boston has sentan agent to West Vir- | ginia to select site for the colony, which now numbers about sixty fami- lies of farmers and mechanics. The squaws at Austin, Nevada, catching the infection of the recent strike, raised their prices for days washing from fifty to seventy-ive cents. Their demands were acceded to peace- ably.
 A pear tree in Mobile, Ala, which has been barren for eight years, made an effort this season, and produced q pear weighing one pound, two ounces, and measuring twelve Inches in circum- ference.
 A jolly place is Ellis Island, New York harbor. It has but one inhabit- ant, the person in charge of the maga- zine in which the powder for use in New York city and neighboring Qualifications is stored.
 James s. A. Phillips, who has just been discharged from the Massachusetts State Prison at the expiration of sen tence for larceny, is S7 years of age, and served the State for a similar offence 90 years ago.
 A Frenchman says the annual value of the products of the glass manu- facture in Europe and America has almost doubled in the last twenty years, and now amounts to not less than 600,- 000, ,000 francs.
 Mrs. Hayes of Allen county, Ky, recently gave birth to four children, two boys and two girls, which weighed twenty-four pounds in the aggregate, and were at last accounts as well as could be expected.
 On a California ranch recently wheat which was standing in the ear at quarter before five in the morning, was eaten as biscuit at a quarter before seven, having been cut, threshed, ground and baked in two hours.
 A firm of Philadelphia capitalists have purchased extensive kaolin lands in Spice Valley township, Ind, and are about erecting costly mills and build ings to prepare the material for use in the manufacture of queensware.
 In a Nevada trial a new theory for defense was evoked. Is consists in proving the previous bad character of the accused in mitigation of his crime, and as an explanation why nothing better could have been expected of him.
 A carrier pigeon, carrying a mes sage to the French Ambassador in Lon don, won race against train going sixty miles an hour. The bird was liberated as soon as the steamer reached Dover, whence it flew to it's dovecote in London, twenty miles in sixty minutes.
 An underground cable for tele- grams has just been laid between Ber- lin and Mayence. The cost is about six times as much as the same number of wires would cost. Ger many now possesses seven underground lines betweeen its capital and its Wes- tern frontier.
 The large foreign trade of Califor- mia in fruit and wines becomes no mys- tery when it is known that the State has 3,S00,0 ,000 fruit trees and 35, ,000, 900 grapevines, and harvests from 300, ,000,- 900 to 5OO,000,000 pounds of fruit yearly. She produces a large surplus, and foreign trade follows as matter of course.
 There is annually imported into the