Connecticut western news., 1878-03-28
GENERAL ITEMS.

The Philadelphia Women's Medical College has just graduated. 17 female physicians. . .2 5l2 '. ID ioli2s11aa7"l '..5 There is great enthusiasm among the young men of the South for militia organizations. 7"na aa' ..,., a..4" .l .l,i, ai. The placer mines of the Black Hills have yielded thus far, according to the best estimates, $4,000,000 The yield of gold in British" Colum- bia last year was $l, 700, GOO, and the ex- port of coal amounted to 154,ob2 tons, ', The weight of the earth, some one says, is 5,s66, ,0OO, 900, COG, 900 tons-a few ciphers, more or less, makes no diff ference. .' .,.., ,.1 ;, ,ft' .#.at'7 .tlI sif The will of the late Paul R. Hazel tine, of Belfast. Me-, bequeaths $25, 900 for religious purposes, and $20, 900 for a public library. ss.4 .,-tg. eg ...'. .l.. ' Major Seth rPierce,gs of Cornwall, Conn.,, ninety-three years old, and far mer in good health, is the oldest living graduate of Yale, representing the class of 1906.
 The Minnesota Legislature is talk ing steps to alleviate distress caused by the grasshopper pest, which embrace @ plan for furnishing seed to those who lost their all. An aggregate of 159, ,2S5 bushels is needed. .,a-- ,ra-k g.s-z
 n-Of the 9,4S4 officers serving in the active army in Prussia, it has been as- certained that 8,591 belong to the State Church, S9O are Roman Catholics, 10 Protestant. Dissenters, and g Jews. Among the men are 75,268 Roman Catholics. l'" .'- -'. ''> .le ''e i@ -.Fi# The Peabody educational fund, de- voted to educational purposes in the South, which Tn 1876 yielded an income of $1O0, ,OOO, has produced only $60, ,0O0 for 1877, and promises 8 yet smaller sum for 1878. Depreciation of real estate is the cause.a T# stj .H a|ataIs.l alici.a .as, Mrs. Crawshah of Newnhan, Forest of Dean, was killed while hunting, at Norton, in England, on March 5. Her horse became uncomfortable, and while taking fence, dashed her violently against 8 tree, dislocating her neck. She d1ed immediately, '...',. .' e' ,- .1
 A Texas paper reports, that a me- teoric stone fell on the place of MT, Raw lett, fifteen miles north of Dallas, that State, week or two ago. Mir. Rawlett, it says, heard the noise, saw @ bluish flame, and felt the shock when it struck. He rode to the spot and found it half buried It was ovaI-shaped and iron like in character. 'As.i 'f9' i9'l Famine seems to be moving vest ward, like the typhus and other epidemic diseases originated by the war, which, after having appeared in Asia Minor, are now spreading desolation in Constantine pie, Bucharest and especially St. Peters burg. Starvation has befallen 80,000,- 900 people in Northern China, threatens to reappenr in southern India, and is also reported from Servia. tra .s.fs.o- Speaking of the sad fate of several of the past Congressman of Kansas, the Lawrence Journal says: Martin F. Conway, who was at one. time man of brilliant parts and promises, is now in an insane asylum. Parrott, the accom- plished orator and genial gentleman, is an insane wreck; Lane died by his own hand, and Cart. Wilder met an early death by consumption Truly, it is a | sad record. .aGu, .g .rUg The Augusta JournGL tells this whale story y" A Maine schooner, while fish ing off the Banks of Newfoundland, with some 200 fathoms of cable out and sails clewed, was suddenly found to be under | headway. It was soon found that large whale of the finback species had got his tail entangled in the cable and was haul ing the craft at the rate of fifteen knots an hour, and, growing more and more excited, was keeping his course to the sea. The whale finally tore away by breaking the cable" ..h.s.f..f
 An arrested moonshiner says there are about 200 illicit distilleries in Putnam county, Tenn, five being in a circuit of one-half mile. Every bushel of corn used produces an average of two and 8 half gallons of whiskey, and the price of corn in that locality seldom reaches fifty cents bushel, making the price of whiskey less than twenty cents gallon. It is generally sold at from one to three dollars per gallon. 9 .
 A tall tramp who encamped at Sears port, Mo-, last Fall, went to school dur ing the Winter and devoted all his ener- gy to mastering the principles of Eng fish orthography. A few days ago he had his triumph. There was spelling match and he was equal to the longest word in the dictionary. After spelling down every one in the class, he chal- lenged the committee and teacher to @ competitive trial and was victorious.
 A fearful catastrophe recently oc- cured in Parma, Italy. An artillery officer and six men were trying to uproot an old horse chestnut tree by the use of dynamite in the public promenade when owing to the officers carelessness, an ex. plosion occurred, killing the officer, two soldiers, two children and another per. son, and wounding sixty-three. Among the seriously wounded were four noble
 men and seversl gentlemen who were out for an afternoon walk, and were attracted to the spot from curiosity to set the experiment. .ao{
 The novel spectacle of sellinga negrt to the highest bidder was witnessed il the streets of Hickman, Ky. Jamel Barksdale was the auctioneer, and as tn, negro man stood on the block and thu