Connecticut western news., 1878-07-18

One or the coolest robberies of the season was the performance at Newport, Saturday night, when Governor Van Bandits house was entered. while the family were at tea. ana robbed Of Jewelry valued at $35, 900. A reward of $l ,250 is offered for the re eoyery of the property and the arrest of the thieves. ~ '.-s
 The net earnings of the Chicago, Burling. ton and Quincy railroad for the first five months Of this year. were $2, ,4O2, ,OOO. an increase or S6l7 900 over the same period lass year earnings of the Milwaukee. Chica- go and St. Paul railroad the first week in July el6l, 900 against $l22, s59 the same week last year.
 Tuesday morning, Mary Brown living in atenement house in New York, in which were housed twenty-four families. set fire 70 her apartment, while she was crazy drunk. Nearly 500 lives were jeopardized. She confessed the crime. The fire was fortunately quickly extinguished.
 The house of Ephraiun Richardson. of Coiden, N. r., was broken open Tuesday. es ne had been missing since July 4, and on iorcing the door of his house Tuesday. blood stains and general confusion were an. parent. It is thought he had been murder so ano Lns body done away with. There I,
 Edward White and Bernard 4arsv ,
 struck oy lightning Tuesday ..fternoon ., gre a,e nsy sh,,roh " K. oLlcK on the spire nf . Wh,ts .,.I was hooo On u street, New -fork an : distsnca of :: -ked to the stre' :. balovr , Grs~ S. ~se 7. sixty feet ard lns' .ant,v % kilard ed sep" " inside the steeple and was knock br~.. so4Io 1 anu s5veIey burned on th.
 ss'' ne was 'a.en co the hospital.
 One of the curios' .sies at the Paris Expo sn. s,or .;.. .S = 1s 'ne smallest book that was ,vnoer.nS~ ' Any language-a marvel o -Hsnta,s .R It is microscopic copy o psJv. dvina Comedls," printed ir so r s,,. .nund in red velvet and silver. ant han All that it may be worn as charm na' .ging from the watch chain. A micro I;ope is needed to read it.
 A Salem (Mass. ) farmer states that tn, greatest caution should be exercised in pick ing potato bugs and larvae, particularly l there be 8 scratch or abrasion of the skin with which the virus associated with thi pest may como in contact. Many instan ces have been known where the inoculatior of the virus has been followed by severe pain and sometimes death. t
 A camel ranch is owned by D. Mather ot Bastrop, Texas. He claims that camels arc no more trouble to raise than horses o] cattle. The colts for three or four days are rather tender ana require close attention but after that they take thelr chances witt the herd. They are extremely doclle. anc as the females give birth to colt every year they are profitable, the animals selling when reared, at from $200 to $500 each 6r. Mather says well broken camel will travel more than one hundred miles day.
 A train was delayed at Beloit, Wis. on Thursday, eight hours by tramps, since which time all trains have been obliged to run through that town without stopping Over 250 tramps are there, and mora com ing. They have been driven out of Iowa by the recent proclamation of the governor ond claim to be en route for Minnesota to get harvest work. They say the railroad must carry them or take their medicine. The railroad company has appealed to Gov srnor Smith for help, and if it is necessary he militia of the state will be called out to stop their Expectations.