Connecticut western news., 1878-06-06
GENERAL ITEMS.

It is officially reported that of 317,- 900, 900 marks, entries into the port of Bremen, Germany, 154, 900, ,000, or about one-half came from the United States.
 It has been proposed to the Khedive of Egypt to convert into paper the cloth of the mummies, of which it IS calculat- ed APO, ,OOO, 900 must be deposited in the pits of Egypt.
 The Omaha HerGld corrects an ex- change, by saying that prairie dogs do not eat flesh and bones, and that prairie dogs are only bob-tail squirrels that eat grass and roots.
 The Luxemburgers have cat races. Cats are taken in bags to point two miles from the city. They are then let out of the bags, and the first reaching the city is winner.
 Francis Carrow's treatment of a Pitts6eld girl was outrageous. He mer- ried her in April, and hanged himself in May, leaving his six children by form CT wife on her hands.
 A sister of Hathaway, the Fall River embezzler, is said to have become insane because of her brothers rascality, and continually keeps saying, "What did you do with the money, George ?"
 At Seneca Falls hostler fell into a well while leading horse to water. The halter was the straw he caught at, and the horse, rather than keep him company, tugged lustily and pulled him out.
 -Senor Zulueta, the noted slave dealer of Cuba, who has just died, is re- ported to have imported nearly 100, ,000 slaves into the Island during his life time. He was worth at the time of his death $15, 100000.
 The loafers who stand about the square in Bangor. Me-, are now provided with whistles, and when they discover the sheriffs they warn the rumsellers by a shrill blast, and he immediately gets his liquor into safe hiding place.
 They do things by wholesale in the far West. A brother speculator has just sued the Bonanza firm of Flood, O'Brien & Go. for the nice little sum of $35, ,635,- 33s. What harvest for the printer who adyertises the sheriff's sales of mines, books, mills, fumes and water works.
 To M. Isidore Godfrey St. Hilaire belongs the credit of having first in- duced the French people, his country men, to try horsehesh, concerning which innovation Alphonse Karr remarked that since the horse had so long carried man, it was but fair that now man should carry the horse. .... .'
 Daniel Short, of Honeoye, N. Y., sheared seventy-four fine breeding ewes, whose average weight was nearly eleven pounds. Spencer Shorts forty-seven yearling ewes averaged over twelve pounds, and George Bays flock of sixty five ewes and weathers averaged twelve and third pounds.
 The Amherst (Mass.) 7ranScript says A little son of George Sanford, three years of age, while playing in the yard near his home in Belchertown, was attacked by vicious colt and bitten badly. The colt was about to strike the child with his feet, when @ COW near by made an attack upon him driving him away. ..
 Although the American Board of Foreign Missions is represented in twenty-six countries whose population aggregates more than one hundred mil lions, the missionary field is by no means fully occupied. The demand for labor CTS in the vineyard is still large, but there is no money to pay them. An ap- peal for additional contributions IS ear nestly made.
 The Russian head of the Police De- partment, Gen. Trepoff, after being shot by the girl Vera Vassolovitch, thought himself mortally wounded, and made his will leaving about $4,000,000 to his family. This caused his dismissal, and not public sentiment. The Czar had al- ways considered him poor and honest, and was shocked to find that man who he thought was serving him through personal devotion had shared in the com mon corruption of official life.
 Just after the ovel throw of the Com mune in Paris two couples were married under very curious circumstances. Each bridegroom had for best men two gems darniies, and each bride two female warders for bridesmaids. They separated at the church door, and the honeymoon was deferred until the couples met again in the French colony of New Caledonia, where they were permitted to reunite. in consideration of the men having giver certain valuable information to the police
 The ages of the reigning sovereignf of Europe are as follows The Emperor of Germany 81 years, the King of Hol 60 years and 10 months, the Emperor oi Russia 59 years and 2 months, Victoris 5S years and 7 months, Victor Emman ual died comparatively young at 57 years and months. The youngest sovereign' are the Emperor of Austria, AZ years and months King Humbert of Italy 34 years the Sultan, 33 years and months; the King of Greece, 32 years and the King of Spain, 20 years and month.
 People on bluff overlooking Ply mouth harbor, Mass, recently witnessed startling sight. They first saw | heavy, black cloud rise from the north ern horizon into what until then hat been clear sky, and sweep with aston ishing velocity across the sea. A streal