Connecticut western news., 1877-06-29
NEWS IN BRIEF

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 In America some $60, 900 have been raised as a Jubilee gift to the pope.
 New York City has, it is said. an excess of 10, 900 marriageable women.
 A Hartford firm has contract to furnish thousand dozen axes to the Indians.
 Newark, N. J., has been experi- menting successfully with steam street cars.
 Tt takes $1O6, ,OOO, 900 worth of liquor 6 year to assuage the thirst of New York city.
 Norfolk, Va, is soon to have beef shipping company composed of English capitalists.
 Martha Washington has sued George Washington for desertion in Philadelphia.
 Mrs. Milly Page, of Burksvllle, Ky, is 102 years old, and has P great great grandchildren Another white whale has been cap tured of the coast of Labrador, and sent to the New York Aquarium.
 A Western paper states that con- cern in that vicinity sold in one day forty rods of sausages and an acre of trlpe. In the vicinity of Mendocino City, Cal, wild blackberries are ripening, and in few weeks they will be abun- dant.
 Hope, Warren county, New Jersey, brides itself on a willow tree whose trunk is about forty feet in circumfer- ence.
 -Ex-Rebel Gen. Hood and Ex-Gov. Warmoth are reported to have made $l0O, 900 apiece by speculations in Louis iana bonds. 5aa
 A monument is to be erected on the site of John A. Sutter's mill at Coloma, Cal, in honor of Marshall, the discov- erer of gold.
 The School Board of Lynn, Mass. has forbidden teachers to set pupils to watch one another on the ground that 1t tends to excite enmity.
 Hon. Ben. H. Hill was lately guest of the Savannah Rifle Association at their regular practice, and made score of 13 out of possible 15.
 A Paris paper states that the aver age number of vehicles which daily cross the Point Neuf is 11,500; that of the foot passengers, 63,000.
 The largest contributor to the revenue of England is said to be brew ing firm, which pays about $5,000 for every working day in the year.
 W. D. Boone, grandson. of Daniel Boone, is now living in Santa Clara Valley, California. He was born in Ohio, and went to California in 1s49.
 The lighthouse exhibited by the Government at the Centennial, will soon be put up on Ship John shoal, Delaware bay, just below Cross Ledge.
 In the Kingdom of Prussia, among 1000, ,000 births, there were seventy-nine cases of four at birth, and one case of five at birth.
 Brooklyn is to have a new gas works with gasometers having capa- city of 1000, 900 cubic feet. The cost
 will be $9O0,0OO.
 There is peddler in Sheffield, Eng
 land, who has been 10S years on the road and is peddling still. He lives on sugar and beer. ......
 The Portland Oregonidn claims to have information from New York thai
 it is known that 25, 900 people from the
 East are going to Oregon to settle this year.
 A part of the speech of Webster in
 reply to Hayne, written out in Web ster's own hand, has been added to the collections of the Boston Public Li-
 brary.
 The average of the present senior
 class at Harvard is 22 years71S months. The oldest man is 3l years months old. : and the youngest man 17 years and
 months. , There are no less than 1,000, ,O00 pear trees of Bartlett, Duchess, Sheldon
 and Vicar of Wakefield varieties now in
 vigorous growth around about Ham monton, N. J.
 Greece has 101 journals and periodi- cal publications, which gives one for : each 14, ASA inhabitants. The number of political journals is S2, of which 36 appear at Athens. Battle Creek, Michigan, is gaining f favor as a manufacturing centre. One 2 day last week she shipped machinery to Georgia, Mississippi, California, Oregon, Nevada and Cuba. : During the first three months of l this year nine railroads in this country, f with mileage of nearly ], 100 miles, re- , presenting a cost of $67 ,O00, ,0O0, passed
 into the hands of receivers. r Thus far this season theBostonIy l ceum Bureau has paid Her-y Ward , Beecher $42, 800 as his portion of the proceeds of this seasons lectures. It is better to be a lecturer than President. Prof. Trowbridge of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College, has been offered the professorship of dyna- . mical engineering in Columbia College r N. Y., with salary of $7 ,5O0 per an- 8 mum.
 There are forty-three thousand
 clergymen in the United States, but
 even this number has not succeeded in working the morals of the community up to that point where all will pay on a l crowded street car. ! A South Carolina soldier has util- 3 ized his time, while in the employ of f Uncle Sam, by collecting 50,0O0 silk e worms. He now asks to be dis- , charged, in order that he may ente. into r the business on a still larger scale. F It has been discovered in Washing + ton that member of Congress has sold ' to a waste paper dealer 300 volumes of ] agricultural reports, instead of inflict- k ing them upon his constituents. Such !, deIicacy of feeling in a Congressman de- s serves special recognition. :. Several English railway companies
 are noted for the fast time made by their
 locomotives. One, for instance, has
 made run equal to 7s miles an hour, - another 70, others 72, 70, 69, 67, etc. 8 Mir. Patrick Stirling of the Great t Northern, took 16 carriages, 15 miles in - l2 minutes, equal to 70 miles an hour. t The German Chamber of Booksell y ing, which has its headquarters at Leip- sic, has decided to publish general : history of the trade in Germany from t it's beginning. Between 1901 and 1920 d there were about 250 booksellers in Ger ' many. in lS40 their number had