Connecticut western news., 1878-04-04
GENERAL ITEMS.

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 A woman caught the high French heels of her shoes in railroad track in Meridian, Minn., and was held fast while train cut off her legs.
 Recently Rockdale, Texas had @ shower of leaves winch lasted all day. The sky was full of them. It is believed that whirlwind brought them from g great distance. | Some men down in Cairo gave g hand organ man a number of bogus quarters, but his lawyer convinced then of the necessity of paying $25 each te settle the case.
 A few potatoes that were not dug last fall on account of the wet weather were plowed out at Louisville, Kan, last week, safe and sound. They were mulched little with straw last summer
 The English Peerage contains one Smith, fifteen Smiths, two Smyths. and one Smythe, besides five Smiths, as many Smyths, and two Smythes who bear courtesy titles.
 Prisoners in the jail in Beloit, Wis, easily overpowered and gagged the Sher- | if, but found barrier to their escape ID the plucky person of the Sheriff's wife, who kept them at bay with a revolver until help came.
 MT. James Parton advances @ new theory in regard to the recent convictions of prominent men. cone good result, J he says, twill come of our having so large anumber of educated men in prison we shall know what prison life is.' James Zeis, the thirteen year old son of a Springfield, Ind, farmer, was reprimanded by clerk for trying to steal lead pencil in the store to which he was sent, and took the reproof so much to heart that he went home and hanged himself.
 A Wisconsin man took a fowing- piece to the village gunsmith for some repairs, informing hIm that it was loaded and he must discharge it. When the mechanic fired it off it burst, and he mar rowly escaped death. And now the sportsman has sued the blacksmith for the value of the gun.
 In Rhode Island there are 3.477 sin gle women who pay taxes, and their ave- rage property is $4, 510 each. The largest amount on which any one of them IS taxed is $756, 700, owned by Providence woman, and thirty other widows or un- married women in the city pay taxes on property averaging $100, 900 each.
 Flowing under water for the purpose of loosening the bed of earth for dredg- ing has been accomplished. The power is supplied from steam englne on the shore, and by means of wire rope the blow is dragged backwards and forwards. The same plan is suggested for removing sandbars, whenever the current is strong enough to carry away the loosened drift and sand.
 Oscar O. Hodge, convicted of man. slaughter in the third degree at Fonda, N. Y., recently, when asked by Judge Landon whether he had anything to say why sentence of the law should not be pronounced upon him, replied, 4Brevty is the soul of wit I ask not charity, but immaculate justice cast myself as holocaust upon the generosi- ty of the court" Hodge was sentenced to two years imprisonment.
 A singular strike is reported from Sheffield, England. Some paupers were sent from the old Workhouse to assist 1n building 8 new one, but they refused to work and left in body. On inquiry it turned out that the hash supplied them was sour, and hence their grievance. Tkey were then supplied with other food but declined to work unless they got hash and no hash being forthcoming they marched back to their old quarters.
 Two young farmers desired the ex- elusive privilege of dancing with the same girl at Mount Vernon, Ill. There was a quarrel ending in the agreement to settle the question in fight The combatants and few friends went to a barn but before beginning the fight one demanded that the other be searched to see if he had any weapon. The search was not thorough, for the searched mau drew knife, on finding that he was be- ing whipped, and inflicted @ mortal wound.
 The Superintendent of Schools in Mount Sterling, H., was riding in railroad car with the fair teacher whom he loved. He urged her to stop at Quincy and get married, but she declined to marry him then or at all. On the stoppage of the train at Quincy, the ar- dent wooer lifted her in his arms and carried her in his arms. She scratched, bit and screamed so vigorously that he was glad to drop her. A police officer arrestel him, and he was fined 1925 for assault
 While John Connolly, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was playing with his little son, aged IA months, who was in his lap, he playfully blew puff of tobacco smoke into its face. The child ooughed, gasp ed for breath and fell back unconscious. In few minutes it died from suffocation. The physician who was summoned said that the child had probably sucked. the smoke into its throat and had been un- able to discharge it. The father was al- most wild with terror.
 A merchant of Akron, Ohio, being prostrated by consumption, desired to go to Florida in search of health. He was advised against the journey by his relatives, except his wife, who accom-