Connecticut western news., 1878-02-14
GENERAL ITEMS.

ports to $696, S64, 500. ....- ........
 A family in Ogdensburg, N. r., were poisoned by eating food made with saleratus kept in tin can.
 A twelve-year old girl in Pottsvllle, Pa., mixed quantity of vinegar and soda and drank it, and died from the eff fects. -.f .--. -r.. ---
 king Humbert of Italy has ordered the sale of 1000 of his fathers horses, and is. reducing the. household expen- allure.
 The Sultan has sent to Osman Pa sha, now prisoner in Russia, present of $5, 900 of money, contribution from Mohammedans. D ..i .+ ..+ s-
 The Florida orange season has proved unremunerative. The markets were crowded with unripe at first, which forced down prices, and there they have remained. .......-e .,,. Mining companies west of the Rocky mountains distributed last year dividends that amAunted to $25, 125, ,000. Of these Consolidated Virginia led all others, pay ing $9, 720, 1000. >'.. A man in St. John, N. B., has been compelled to submit to three amputa- tions of portions of his leg within year past because of injuries received by an accident on a railroad.
 The Emperor of China, 1t is rumor ed, has been solicited to change his dy- nastic title, in consequence of numerous national calamitles, and thereby appease the wrath of the gods. .f,.# .
 American shipbuilders now claim that they can build a good irst-class ship for less money than 8 similar ves- sel can be produced in any part of the world. Prices were never before so low.
 English ship captains do not receive high pay. The Cunard captains are paid the highest, $2,O0O: One veteran captain of the Hamburg line receives $1, 500, the highest salary paid to Ger man captain.
 A Californian has invented an in- genious water faucet, through winch, if water is run, it comes outas cold as ice water. Boiling water placed in any re- ceptacle and allowed to run through will be found cool and fit to drink. .
 Judge Sand of the Louisville Su- preme Court was so drunk on the bench that he would have fallen off if he had not been carried from the room. He has resigned in consequence of the pub- lie exposure of his weakness.
 Champaign county, ILL, has real es- tate assessed at about $1 ,000, 900, upon which there are mortgages recorded for about $6,000,000. The annual interest on these amounts to nearly $500, 900 and the taxes to more than $400, 900 more.
 Master Frank Merrill, of Laporte, Ind. aged sixteen, by joining the church induced the parents of a girl of fourteen to let him make love to her. Result He has fled, she will soon be mother, and her mother has gone mad over her daughters shame.
 A Chinese resident of Winnemucca, Nev., informed on the proprietors of four opium dens, who were fined For this he was tried and sen- fenced to death by 0 secret Mongolian tribunal, and shot down and stabbed on the streets at dusk.
 Denton, Texas, has desperate of African descent, named Joe Faust, whose tactics are rather peculiar. Cooking a pistol on divine, he made him get down on his hands and feet, bleat like a sheep, and compelled him to butt an oak tree until he made the acofns fall.
 A recent Belgian publication shows that the actual population of the earth is about thousand millions, about equally divided between males and females. Every year about 33, GOO, ,OOO die; every day, 91, 1884; every hour, 3,7sO; every minute, 60. There is death in every second
 A number of young ladies of Gum ] club, and propose meeting weekly at different residences and discussing the , refreshments made up of articles pre- pared by the members, each lady being 7 required by the rules to contribute some , specimen of her own cooking.
 The State of Georgia lets out its convicts for $14 year apiece to com. panies that furnish guards and employ the prisoners in mines or on farms. A contract has just been entered into be. tween ex-Gov. Brown and the State by which the former agrees to pay the latter $500, GOO in yearly installments of $25,. GOO for the use of all convicts for twen, ty years from April, 1879.
 The coal production of the world has increased enormously since 1S45. In that year Great Britain produced 31,. , 500, 900 tons; in 1874, 125, ,O43, 1000. Bel gium, 1S45, 4,96O, ,O77 in 1874, 14,66s,. 900. France, 1S45, 4,141,6 1874
 16, 949, ,OOO. Prussia, 1S45, 3,50O,OO0
 1874, Al, 754, 600. In the United States
 the production in 1864 was nearly ter
 ines that in 1S45.
 The London Builder, in an article on the outlook of labor in 1878, says that during 1877 there has been a strike
 among the laboring classes in England z every other day indeed, reckoning Sun , days, there has been Q strike every fif
 teen hours, taking the working day al
 ten hours. The total number of strike. , has been 191, but nothing has occur
 red of a magnitude comparable to that O. the great railroad shock of the United
 States.