Connecticut western news., 1878-10-23
GENERAL ITEMS.

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 During the past year the old Catholics in Switzerland have increased from O,00O to 10000.
 The appraisers fix the value of the estate of the late Wm. s. O'Brien of San Francisco, at $9, 655, 459,77.
 At barbecue at Silver Greek, Ga, Y, last week eighty-four sheep and thirty oxen and hogs were roasted.
 -Salad-dressing, according to a Spanish proverb; "Aspendthrift to put in the oil, miser to put in the vinegar, wise man to pepper and salt and a mad man to stir"
 The Lincolnshire Rifle Volunteers were recently turned out for parade and sham fight, when the discovery was made that they had been served with ball cartridge.
 There are seventy-five vessels in port at Charleston, s. O., some fifty of which are square-rigged vessels em- ployed in the foreign trade. Seven of bucIu ny huS11Cuu SO1O1os
 William Lloyd Garrison celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of his apprentice ship in the Newburyport Herald office few ago by putting in type one of his own poems from memory.
 A shipowner of Zaandam, Holland, is worth $sO, 1000, GOO, but he lives in a house worth about $4, 900, and he enjoys himself sitting in the little door-yard with his two daughters playing domi- 1 nos.
 James Lee, formerly proprietor of bleachery at Somerville, Mass, is charged by the Mystic Water Company with having surreptitiously tapped the company's pipes and during twelve years filched water to the value of $96, ,OOO.
 A Providence swindler coolly sold a house to which he had no claim, and re- ceived $2, 700 for the forged title. The owner first learned of the sale when the supposed purchaser ordered him to move out.
 At Saigon, China, on the 17th of August, four English sailors perished, one after the other, endeavoring to res. cue Chinese coolie who had fallen into the hold of 0 steamer and been choked by carbonic acid gas.
 --Eben w. Reyes, of Denver, made his wife the legal owner of all his hof Nicr, ho nr,t Nf ho reach of his creditors. The wife separated from him after quarrel, and refused to surrender dollar to him. He committed suicide.
 Edward Ward whipped his wife SC outrageously in Charlevoix, Mich., that his neighbors tarred and feathered him but the wife removed the tar and feathers from him, bound up his wounds, and ac- companled him in his migration from the county.
 Applications have been made to the Mansion House fund for the relief of sufferers by the Princess Alice horror by a man who lost his umbrella, an other who lost his hat and overcoat and a woman who had her dress torn Sin the act of rescuing her."
 Some negro boys organized mock court in Baldwin, Ga., condemned a playfellow to death, and hanged him from beam. They supposed he would tell them when to let him down, but he only kicked, and they took that for sport. Ho ,yos obokad to death | Eleven men were waiting for a rail road train in Franklin, Tenn. A negro was caught in serious crime close by the station. The eleven men chased him a mile, caught him, hanged him, and returned to the station, where the train had been kept waiting for them.
 A family of emigrants, on the way to Texas, camped over night in Sedalia, Mo. In the morning the man packed all the things in the wagon to continue his journey, except his aged mother-in- law, whom he left at the side of the road. However, mob compelled him to take her along.
 A wealthy but drunken farmer in Hinesville, Ga, stood up in a camp meeting and asked to be prayed for. A clergyman made the desired prayer, in which he characterized the farmer as an exceedingly wicked man. The farmer resented that description of himself, and has sued the clergyman for defamation.
 Judge Simmons of St. Louis holds that street crossing are made for the convenience of persons on foot, and that it is the duty of the drivers of all vehi- cles, including street cars, not only to check their speed when any person is on a crossing, but to stop where there might be the least danger of collision.
 -Dutchy Thompson, one-armed politician of Cincinnati, begged that his opponent in caucus would not let pity, or any other consideration arising from the formers maimed condition, deter him from carrying out threat to whip him. Thereupon the opponent undertook the job, but was quickly stabbed in five places.
 The young Duke of Norfolk is ground landlord of nearly all Sheffield the home of cutlery, and has place called Sheffield farm in the neighbor. hood. In honor of his marriage he gave last week @ magnificent ball there to 600 guests. When the leases fall in, his income from Sheffield will exceed $1, ,50G, ,000.
 A San Francisco pawnbroker lent $1O on a violin worth $100, and put the instrument carefully away in closet On the following day similar violir