Connecticut western news., 1878-08-15
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 l-Northern Dakotah, boasts of wheat farms, comprising six thousand acres, whose yellow seas of grain astonish the beholder. 3 il zaEay s.'sas- zl... sl lti-.f 's-
 The Prince of Wales intends visit ing Australia and contiguous English colonies next year; also China and Japan. 4aa.s z.Al lJ 37sH D x .r
 The total expenses of Russia during the late war, including its issues of paper money and its outstanding debts, were, up to the 24th of June last, considering the depreciation of the rouble, about $592, 800, ,O0O.
 The Spanish Government has just secured the extradition from France of a mysterious lady of high rank, said to have been engaged with several illustri- ous aceomplices in g theft ot $4, 1000, 900. l Judge Mackey, of South Carolina, says that, whereas in old times at least ten negroes were annually slain by white men, last year one negro was killed by a white, while seven white men were murdered by negroes. -.'.' .
 A. bill for POS suppers was presented to a. young man in Port Austin, Mich., by father whose daughter had been courted for four years. by the young man and then deserted. He was always in time for tea each Sunday night of the term. Experiments were lately made at Portsmouth, England, to ascertain how near torpedo boat can approach war vessel at night without being perceived. It, was found that but one minute and & half was allowed vessel to prepare for defence. .a slH Vi >8I saai- g Vaa45
 The yield of the Consolidated Vir- ginia mine for the year ending June, 30, 1878, was 187, ,572 tons and 1,600 pounds of ore, which produced bullion to the value of $15, 46s, ,9155O. The California mine yielded 222, 276 tons of. ore, pro ducing $17, ,649, ,329. 42 of bullion. -. 7, An old compositor walked into the composing room of a large ablishment in New York city, where he had been foreman twenty five years previously
 Looking around among the men he found that only two were left out of fifty who were under him at that time, The other forty-eight were dead. z .7lE b1a .fl.a,sI .r At Texas baH; a large, number of married women who had brought their babies found it impossible to dance un- less some of the young men became nurses. The young men took the babies into another room, and changed their clothes, so that when $ the mothers reached home that night there was con- sternation over the interchanges.
 s An English ice ship, going to Bonn bay, was struck by lightning near the forerigging. The,b then went down into the body of the ship, making a hole about two feet in diameter through the ice. It next took circular direction, and melted about thirty tons. of ice abes fore it made its exit through the. ships quarter. aO ssa js i1qs5 33 IssT sgo14
 When Goldsmith Maid trotted a mile in ,2:14, it was considered it was--a wonderful feat Now Rarus sees the Maids time and goes threeiguarters of a. second better, Ttrottingo the mile in 2.134. This isfvsry fast going certainly, but the chances are that the-colt is now nibbling grass whose predestined glory is to beat it. .is.f,f.3tp .W
 Some time ago policeman, stout, bold and indomitable fellow, accustomed to cope with rufians of the vilest class, when asked what kind of bad characters he feared the most replied z "T fear only one class, and that is the drr1nkards who travel about our streets with just enough rum in them to be quarreIsome, and not enough rum in them to bring them to the gutter" "''l s' 't''f '''''7s ~
 A Washington young woman awoke from her sleep with a confused sense of somebody standing over her. She reached out her hands, which fell on the head of gburly negro burglar. She clutched the wool firmly and shouted, Somebody come here quick. '' The male members of the family rushed in just as the strength of the young girl gave way, and the burglar escaped. .e1s 'a A Sheffield, England, furnaceman came home late and drunk, and his wife, who was asleep, kept him waiting at the door longer than pleased him. Accord ingly he knocked her down upon sofa, emptied bucket of water upon her, pulled her along the floor, kicked her in the mouth with his, heavy. shoes and wound up by dragging her into the yard and jumping upon her. The jury found him guilty, but recommended him to mercy sson the ground of the provoca- tion given him by his wife. .,gs ,.,s,,
 As furniture in a tenement house at Fall River, Mass, was being transferred to wagon, the. wife carefully wrapped in aalarge comforter her little baby and put it on a bed in an upper chamber. A little later some one down by the wagon called to man who entered the chamber to throw down something to use for pack: ing to protect some articles The man seized the rolled-up comforter and flung it out of the windowg It was caught by a woman, who, finding 5 lump in, it, tin folded fl, to find the child pnharmed. .sa
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 THE WRONG RoIL. A2The Detroit .Post says: MT. Hill and Primai Donna ,Di Mursskaa were if coqn ting pp the weeks re- ceipts, and the rolls of greenbacks were lying on the table in front of them, and