Connecticut western news., 1878-05-09
GENERAL ITEMS.

 ploys 300 workmen at Natick, Mass.
 A single vessel constitutes the Labrador fishing fleet this year from the United States.
 In 1870 the hoopskirt manufacture amounted to $5,OOO, 900 in this country, but it has had "pull-back."
 Ten per cent. of the husbands in come is what it is legally decided in Eng land he shall pay for his wife's dresses.
 Benjamin F. Taylor has accepted the invitation to deliver the poem before the New York State Press Association at it's annual meeting in Syracuse in June.
 The Courier du HdUre says that horses will soon be scarce in France, in- asmuch as the English are purchasing them at every point for their army at high prices.
 In one of the relief camps ill India recently, among the famine-stricRen na- tives brought in was full-grown man, ge-limbed and big -mads, who weighed forty five pounds.
 The Supreme Court of Massachu- setts has decided that note given for a church subscription does not carry with it an obligation to pay, since it is given without consi iteration.
 It is stated as significant fact in the experience of prison keepers that while wives constantly visit and condole with their husbands when imprisoned, hus- bands seldom or never visit their erring wives in prison, but almost invariably desert them in their trouble.
 Two female tramps entered . resi- dence in Merrimac, N. H., during the absence of the family, took possession of the guest chamber and retired to bed. Their presence was first known by their appearance ill the dining hall the next morning demanding breakfast.
 A man at Avesne, in France, threw something at dancing bear on exhibi- ton in the streets. The animal rushed upon him and tore off his nose, together with portion of his cheeks. He then seized a child, but a powerful man wrestled with him and saved it, after being himself severely bitten.
 The Monticello (N. Y.) Watchman says there are five wintergreen stills in operation within circuit of three miles from the village of Forrestburgh, in that county, giving employment to about sixty pickers, mostly women and children. The wintergreens sell for $1 per hundred pounds at the still.
 A new agricultural pest has ap- peared in Montgomery county, Ken lucky, in the shape of a little green bug which is playing sad havoc with the blue grass. Reports are made of fifty acre pastures ravaged by this insect, winch seems to destroy the vitality of the grass and make it appear as if long drouth had been visiting it.
 The novelty about the elopement of Alexander Bablink and Miss Halli- day, in Hyde Park, Mass, was that the girl we 1t in her night dress. Her father had hidden most of her clothing on her going to bed, but she climbed down a ladder to her lover, who took her to his home and dressed her from his sister s wardrobe. Then they rode to a clergy mans house and Were married
 Lord Brougham was speaking in the House of Lords, and was attacking, or rather beginning to sttack, tho Duke of Wellington Id that tone of insolent sar- casm which was so familiar to him, when; ill the midst of his harangue, the Duke, from the opposite side, lifted up his finger and said, loud enough to be next" AS if panic stricken, Brougham broke of, and ran upon some other tack.
 A lady was descending flight of stairs in house in Biddeford, Me-, when she fell aud dislocated her shorl- der. She landed on a large dog at the foot of the stairs, which rose in fright and threw her into an adjoining room, where she fell upon hot stove and would have been seriously burned had not man, who happened to be there, suddenly pulled her away, in doing which he brought her arm back into place again.
 Lord Leitrim was man of strong likes and dislikes, and one of his chief antiquities was horror of goats. An old woman, one of his tenants, had a favorite goat, which he espied one day and made her bring it up to him by the side of the road. Without @ word of warning he took out his knife and cut it's throat. The woman, as far as she dared, reproached him with the ruthless act, whereupon he gave her 920 note, saying "Take this to buy COW with. "
 The Age of Our Planet.