Connecticut western news., 1878-02-07
GENERAL ITEMS.

died at his farm near Nor folk, Va. A2lGv5 o3 oltii ut.I sWGas .rgdilg A wealthy citizen of 1ElIhso1rn, Wis., s. aged sixty-h has just sharried hrlaarrrr est girl of twenty years. sE-4,- ,r, E. 4 y79gst 1toS! ae eia Judge Allison, of aPennsylvania, has decided thai the machinets ts8s atof an iron rea estate :s92'1 sr9i.t,s atsg! Ti 1IS1 s
 Horace Greeley'sI estate suppose f to be worth, ina 1873. s$2o6DS4 525s turns out only about $2O, ,eoe1q ,3 .f :Gs3l3a5 t ;,.t
 Druggists in Virginia represent that the use of opium has greatly increased in that State within a few years " VT, l z-2 1T Chicago and Louisville are the only pork packing centres that show an in- crease over last years operations. n' 1& '....
 Parties are being organized in Lon don to make excursions to Russo Turkish battle-fields as soon as peace is declared.
 --Texas papers deny that dueling was ever popular in that State, and they claim that in these days it is almost un- known. sT .oyu. r",. .5 .s..,..- .usa.. ,4yl
 At Glenvllle, near Cleveland, Ohio, is . stable containing eleven horses valued at $120,OOO. Rarus, valued at $40,000, is among them, mir n g, .rsgif m
 Tn hearing before committee Of the Maine Legislature, Neal Dow de- nounced druggists, shops as 'f the worst rum shops in the State. "a7sa .L ID v.la {
 ,-The Louisville Courier Journals says that "a Mississippi girl had her lover arrested for beating her,. and then went to the jail and married him.
 At sale of blooded bulls in Paris, Ky. !, the Fourteenth Duke of Thorpdale, which eleven months ago was purchased for $l7,9OO, was sold for $2,335. .,,[ 2 '. .''
 Montenegro, in the late Russo Turkish strife, lost I, coo in killed and 1000 in wounded, or more than 0 quarter of it's population capable. of bearing arms ova [tot,.I} woram-al oga,lig a'l
 Fire destroyed $720,OOO worth of saw mills in Michigan last year. In- cluding the salt blocks, etc., that went up, the, losses foot up nearly or quite $l, ,OoO, O4loqu sa,, aa, ts s,.;.94,. fl. ri,- The, practice meeting. of Q music cluss in Tennessee town was diversified by the entrance of Q, party of drunken youths, and when the teacher demanded order they shot him deessd. eg,s,,, 1T. ..,
 Sixtyrfiver of, the eighty-one lives lost'a the Ashtabulazdisaster have been paid for by the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad Company at a rate averaging 5000 apiece. The most ex- pensive life cost the company $9, 900.
 Prof. Peck, who is connected with a school in, Homer, Cortland county, has been fined $250 for severely whipping 9 pupil. At one time, the Ithaca Journal says, the jury, stood six in favor of making the amount $1, 1000 and six for $500. " m
 -Tlere are over 200 cigar manufac. tories in San Francisco, giving imploy ment to over 4,O0O men! These facto- ries turn out l07, ,o0o, 900 cigars annually and 7,OOO, 900 -or 8,OoO,0o0 cigarettes. The business is fast being monopolized by the Chinese Ia yi37 ef""'s'g'-. 1f-"
 "A Pennsylvania paper says, that sev- eral persons who had pleaded that they couldn't pay their honest debts, because, as they said, they lost their money in the Miners Trust Bank, felt very cheap when the list of creditors was published and their names did-not appear. aI .ar 10 nu
 The winter of 1S29-3O surpassed the present. one in mildness.y Farmers plowed every month of the season, and no snow fell until Feb. 9 It was fol= lowed, however, by a cold, backward spring, with snow storm in May which killed the returning swallows. q 7 .'..#
 John O'Connor returned to Sayap- nah, Ga, after. an absence of twelve years, and found his wife married to another man, He attempted to enter her .domicile against, her protest, and was arrested and committed to jail by the Mayor ip default of a fine for being drunk and disorderly. '...V T, .-..,.t
 IA subscription to raise S400 to build 8 church has been circulated ina Minne- sota town, but the local paper recom- mends that the sum demanded be diverted to a new cheese factory, on the ground that no pecuniary benefits will accrue from new church edifce, while a cheese factory will pay dividend.
 A bill for the suppression of tramps is before the Maryland Legislature, It provides that any. wandering, lndigent, and unemployed person may be sen tenced by Justice of the Peace to six months imprisonment. The tramp thus dealt with is to be put to work but be. fore the committal he may have, if he demands it, trial by jury.
 During twelve years Albert Meyn, of Boston, paid the premiums on $25, ,00C of life insurance. This burden was the causeeof his bankruptcy; but he strug. gled hard and made the payments, be- heving that by doing so he was securing his family against poverty after his death. Within two years one after an other of the companies in which he was insured have gone to pieces, and when he died, several weeks ago, all his poll
 cies were worthless. His wife and chil dren are penniless. T Ea '-"o: | - ....-. ..... - --, . D ' l Method in His Madness.
 A poOd story is told of the late Com