Connecticut western news., 1877-02-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.


 fifty concerts in Australia, at themod- ao est terms of $75,QD0. g. ~ts..u r s's yug.s
 A monkeys skull was found recent ,'a ly, in a sack of Rio coffee opened in a. grocery at Raleigh, N. c. ......,,.,...,
 At. John Roache's ship yard at Chester, there are five ships building, giving employment to ,500 men. h A5'"
 Over eight millions of people, near" ly one-tifth of our entire population, have visited the Great Exhibition at, ~ Philadelphia. .....-... ....,r..s
 Senator Sharon of Nevada, has ,, been assessed on $200,000 as the value of the furniture in the Palace Hotel at San Francisco. ... -.a a& e-
 Jacksonville has grown faster than "7 any other city in Florida, the popula- tion increasing within few years from 2,000 to 12,0O0. ,... 2,
 Tho Supreme Court of Massachu- ,t sests decides that Israelites must Keep the State laws regulating the observ- ance of Sunday. a. "t g44t. "A
 The Indiana insurance commission-"sa sioner estimated that outside companies mia have $50. 0.0o0,000 at loan at and 10 per -,, cent. in that state. ' '.'''.A -
 Governor Colquitt of Georgia is a 4N very jealous Baptist, and breaches every Sunday to the negro workmen -D whom he employs. .pvrrE A The Naval Commission reports lar favor of abandoning the naval essabllsh- ,.. ments at New London, New Orleans, '' and Brunswick, Ga. s '; 1#. 'F7A
 During 1876. 317 ,69s head of cattle9Ha were driven from Southwestern Texassaa to Kansas and Colorado, which is oon-4nl sidered a neat business. ..,,a.,4 i'm, .,.....,.3,p
 The corporation of the city of Lou- o, 1l 1,o, "A half of money, in order to make ani9o the London bridges free from toll. ra grroo r -The London Telegraph shows !asua average circulation for the last six .,, months of over 200, ,000, the largest ever attained by any daily newspaper in the s" world. 14 < E~3mfsd ' "rl b9lqhAR t Great Britain paid over $70O, ,0O0,0 es for intoxicating drinks in 1875. It canz not be told how much America paid inr 4, the same time, so much of it was charged. .@ .'' fs. sl '.-" -S"'@iH D. -The school population of Intliana,9aH according to the Srperintendent's -reHea port, numbers 6s9, ,230; of these sl62 2,96a cd have not attended the schools dqringaai the year. .,....,..-.--,l,-. -.',,.,-z .- "A Roman chariot race ace between cen two ,h''a young women, Misses Virginia Mason and Jenny Duplan, took place eeJ Christmas day at Golden Gate .Parkua3 San Francisco. ..,, e t. ..qf5g ,f,. 7svs rrisseo a} Marshall r. Wilder, of Massachu-flas sets, is proud of the fact that he has -, witnessed the inauguration of every, Governor of that Commonwealth durli C. ing the past four years. .e5y-T a' g9uRss
 Agricultural Hall, at thegCenten-T nial, is to be taken apart and sshippe'hIsn to Spring Lake, near Sea Girt. Out of, its wood a hotel, a railroad depot and eight cottages are to be built. ." '"'
 Trinity church, now nearly com ~' pleted ill Boston, will cost in the vicini.d g, ty of seven hundred and fifty thousand e,. dollars, and on the day of it's consecra-
 tion it will be free from debt. ~- '''- '~'" y ' .. Among the relics recently added to "0 the Revolutionary collectionin the Oia shi South, Boston. are pair of spurs which Eg were given by General Washington to ,s, Thomas Lamb, at Valley Forge in ITS, t,r
 The death rate of New York cityi..', per 1000 people is larger than Phila- delphia, Brooklyn, Boston, Baltimore, 'oA and Chicago, a result arrived at by the9tra Sanitarian, taken from the best sources e of information. .-., ,,.4,
 -Firmin- Gerard's "Paris Flower ,.,, Market" intended for A. T. Stewart,
 but not finished before his death, has been on exhibition in New York. 1t has been sold for $20,000 to a wele o go known connoisseur. ., .,-.r- ,l,st
 Before 1870 there were no horse railroads in London. There are now twenty-four routes i'll running order, D and the traffic has increased from four s million passengers in 1871 to twenty a7a seven million in 1876. 5r .. .,7s..et .,f,j
 The Cincinnati Commercial gives a, nearly seven columns of ghastly statis- tics under the head of "American Kill lings in ls76," The summary shows oHH that the number of killers was 632, and 7l n the number of victims 735. + fl. rB Aaega
 The Rothchilds are said to be worth ,7, ,g ali of them together-the agreeable. sum of 3,400, ,000,000. One of them, Baron Edward, has just purchased at H'u auction a curious bit of furniture, GOV. a cred with plates of Sevres, for 700, ,000' francs. -,'' '''
 The recently deposed Egyptian E. Treasurer, Ismail- Sauik, might, have oqyr been able to retire oil a competency fine finn hadn't persisted in spending 1,5O0,0 r,,, a year. He owned 50,000 acres, and yt,~ $4,000,000 in jewels and money were ID found in his palace. %, 4 rDaagai
 The English revisers of the Old, z1o Testament have held forty-one sessions s9 They have carried their revision as far s.1 as Ezekiel xliv., 14. The English re- vcl' visers of the New Testament have held oc sixty-tive sessions. At their last meet-.-ad ii ing they reached the sixth chapter of. "al Hebrews, v 5c"E
 The manufacture of cigars is be- '' s coming an important industry in Cin.' v cinnati. In 1870 there were 150 manu- .1 facturers ill the city, who turned out 25, ,000,0 900 cigars, upon which they paid a tax of $125000. In 1876 there were 400 manufacturers. who turned out 100, ,000, 900 cigars and paida tax of $500, GOO. :-'elat1
 There is now living at Norwich, 1o77 Eng, an old lady who was ,presentat s:9s the Battle of Waterloo, and took a pas z sive part therein. She was the daughter. of the gardener at the chateau of Houg-
 oumont, and at the time five years Of < age. Her father did not leave the chat+ hra eau until it was shelled by Jerome Boz naparte. ...,---, .t,'sv
 The most expensive newspaper pub, ,a lished in Paris is the Art, the yearly subscription to which is $24 gold, and ' the cheapest is the Bonne Pemsee, & re-. ,Te ligious weekly, which costs only l2 cts.2 r a year. The oldest of Parisian journals, is the Journal General des A.bicheS, which is now in it's two-hundred and forty- Vi. seventh year of publication. r. 7o1 ,o7S
 Italy has declared it's seventeen universities open to women. The like, .5 action has been taken by Switzerland, ?. Norway Sweden, and Denmark. A
 ministerial order has been issued in 0, Holland, opening every university and H gymnasium to women. France has opened the Sorbonne to women, and Y, Russia its highest schools of medicine