Connecticut western news., 1878-01-31
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GENERAL ITEMS.

 voices in this country, of whom 70, 900 die annually.
 MT. P. T. Barnum is said to calculate that he has sold since he began his business of amusement, no less than $93, ,OOO, 900 worth of tickets.
 MT. Edward K. Collins, the founder of the Collins Line of steamships between New York and Liverpool, died suddenly, of heart disease in New York City. {
 A couple on thelr wedding tour fell into the hands of three-card monte men on the cars near Delaware, Ohio, and were relieved of $250 and their watches.
 To work hard all day picking cotton, and. then be sent seven miles to drive COWS, WAS considered an outrage hy-a Columbus, Tenn, boy, so he hanged himself.
 There were five steamers, twenty nine ships, and 101 other vessels built in Maine last year, the aggregate tonnage being 76,308 tons. This is an increase over 1875 and 1876.
 Vermont has 20 savings banks and trust companies, with 31, ,529 depositors and $8, ,321 ,000 in deposits. The total expenses last year amounted to $42, ,653- GA. The surplus held is 1856, ,274.
 Over $1S, 900, ,OOO in silver has been sent within year to China. Half of it was in trade dollars. This does not in clude what Chinamen themselves have taken home. Very little gold goes to China.
 American champagne will soon become as cheap as soda water. Manu- lecturers are preparing to sell it in quart and gallon syphons. When bought by the gallon it will cost about six cents q glass.
 An extensive linen factory of Belfast was insured in New York fire insurance company. The English companies did not wish to take the whole risk, 80 the proprietors sent over to America.
 At Mitchell, Ont, last week, law abiding citizen had young girl arrested and fined for "trespass, the offense consisting 1n entering his yard to draw pail of water from his we'll. The girls father was lying on his death- bed at the time.
 There are at the present moment thirty-six reigning sovcreigns in Chris tendon from the Queen of England, to whom 237, ,OOO, ,OO0 of human beings owe allegiance, to the Prince of Monaco, whom 5,742 subjects acknowledge as their liege lord.
 The regular publications in the State of New Jersey are as follows:-Re- publican dailies, 10; weeklies, AZ; semi weeklies. 10. Democratic dailies, 2; weeklies, 39. Independent dailies, 4; weeklies, 61. Temperance weekly, 1; mechanical weekly, l.; greenback weekly, 1. ..
 Two Russian officers were tried some time since for selling good guns as old brass. One was condemned to be shot and the other to be hanged. The former was easily disposed of, but no one in Russia would'undertake the execution of the latter, and an appeal is now being made in Poland.
 Mrs. Matilda Stanley, whom the papers style the Queen of the Gypsies, her authority being recognized by all the tribes in the United States and Canada, died in Vicksburg, Miss, few days ago. Her remains have been taken to Dayton, Ohio, where her "family " owns much real estate.
 A convention IS to be held in Atlanta, Ga., of public educators, college men, and friends of education throughout the South, for the purpose of securing, if possible, such action by Congress as will devote part or the whole of the proceeds of the sale of the public lands to the cause of public education.
 An aged resident of Hartford re- members that the Winter of 1S29-30 sur passed this in mildness; farmers plowed every month of the season, and no snow fell until February g. The winter was followed, however. by cold, backward Spring, with snow storm in May, which
 
 A Western farmer for the past two years has salted large portion of his corn in the shuck when he housed it, and none of it was eaten by rats, while that put up without salt was almost en- tirely destroyed. This is simple remedy, and as the shucks, when salted, are greedily eaten by cattle and horses, it is certainly worth trying.
 At Giurgevo a Roumanian civilian entered railway carriage filled with Turkish prisoners and commanded them to stand In his presence, striking them when they refused. A Russian Colonel, attracted by the noise, told the Turks to give this individual 0 sound thrashing, adding that he did not care If they killed him. Thereupon the Moslems proceeded.
 Petroleum was utilized as early as 1906. Nat Carey, peddler, was the first person to do SO. He gathered it by floating flannel cloths on Oil Creek, Pa. and they became saturated with the oil floating on the surface, he saved it by | Wf1ngng out Ine clotns. Ane oll ohus collected he sold as hniment, under the name of Seneca oil, and it became famous.
 The largest oyster on record in the United States was one taken from the beds in Mobile in 194O. It measured three feet and one inch in length, and | tWenty-three and half inches in breadth across its widest part. In 1865, a Jefferson Market oyster dealer of New | York city found amono his stock of East