Connecticut western news., 1878-03-14
GENERAL ITEMS.

to be very much impaired.
 -Canadas loyal volunteers are burn ing with enthusiasm to fash their virgin swords on some Russian battle field.
 During the four months preceding the fall of the Bastile, there were more than 300 riots in France.
 The total cost of the East River Bridge connecting New York and Brook lyn is, thus far, $s,516, ,83s,29. It is far from being bridge yet.
 Strikes have become so common throughout France that the authorities have found it necessary to interfere for the purpose of preventing disturbances.
 A North Carolina woman used her baby as missile so effectively as to knock her husband down, but 1t killed the child.
 It is proposed to make Oakland the capital of California, as Sacramento is often rendered almost inaccessible by freshets.
 A mouse placed in box with three rattlesnakes at Anna, H., killed one of the snakes, while the two remaining ones showed the greatest fear of the little beast, watching every move it made.
 A young woman of Newburg, Wis, severely thrashed her father because he would not raise $500 to give her as dowry, in order to marry 0 man who l. ko Al,,4
 The two hundred thousand gallons of wines, spirits and liquors that have passed through the United States Gus tom Houses since the first of the year do not look much like hard times.
 A German woman, about 50 years of age, has worked at the trade of black smith, as a helper to her husband, for the past nine years. She Is resident in the suburbs of Pittsburgh.
 The alarming prevalence of diphthe- ria throughout Tennessee has induced the State Board of Health to issue cir cular prescribing a general mode of treat ment.
 
 surgeons in hospitals, whom they find in the Turkish service, and the fate of those who are. now in the East and have not the money or other means for escape is deplorable enough.
 -" What do you think of Russia ?" asked an Englishman of General Grant at Cairo, Egypt. "I cannot conceive of a nation," was the answer, |" that grows so much grain without producing any whisky"
 Rev. Dr. Houghton, of the noted sslittlo church around the corner" in New York refused to marry the actress Kate Claxton to MT. Stevenson, fer the reason that Kate was divorced woman, and Ter husband was still living.
 There are 125 species of grass known to be native in Maine, and it is thought survey would discover half as many more. Fifty kinds have high agricul- tural value. The grass crop of the State is said to be worth $42, ,000, ,000 annually.
 The convict choir at Auburn prison is remarkable musical organization. The organist is sentenced for grand lar ceny, the first violin, the first tenor and double bass are murderers, the second tenor, basso, and sopranos are all bur glars, and the professor Is a forger.
 pr. J. l.. Briggs of San Juan, Col. orado, was caught in 0 snow slide lately aud carried down the mountain side two thousand feet. When found, h1s dead body was buried in the snow, head downward, with his feet and legs to the knees protruding above the surface.
 Daniel McFarlane, who shot Rich ardson the author in New York some years ago, is dissipated wreck of q man, and drags out a miserable existence as 8 mechanic in some western town, until his identity is discovered, when he goes to another locality to follow the same programme.
 Robert Emmett just before his death said "Let no man write my epitaph for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not preju- dice or ignorance asperse them. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written."
 MT. John w. Wheeler, of Tusoola H., was awakened at night by his dog springing upon his bed and clawing al the bed-clothes. Startled at the unusual conduct of the animal, he got up, anC discovered that fire was raging in the lower part of the house, and he barely escaped with his family and his dog.
 Prof. 0. V. Riley, Chief of the United States Chronological Commission, says that, in the opinion of the Commission the people of the West need not fear thil year any serious ravages from the grass hoppers. ~This opinion has been formed after personal examinations during tn, Autumn in much of the country, an( from the reports of numerous core spondents.
 The trade dollar was made solely fol the Chinese trade. The Chinese soo1 discovered that the Mexican dollar wal heavier than the old United States dol lar, and refused to take the latter. Al Mexican dollars sufficient to meet tn, Chinese demand could not be obtained the trade dollar was minted for the pur pose. It weighs APO grains, while tn regular dollar weighs 412t.
 French youths refusing military ser vice on grounds of conscience are no always to be found but one was latel, discovered in a conscript drawn from L.