Connecticut western news., 1878-01-17
GENERAL ITEMS.

Four good reasons for being an ab- stainer: my head is clearer, my health is better, my heart Is lighter and my purse is heavier.
 A Missouri farmer found his missing daughter ip the guise of St. Joseph newsboy. She had, on being reproached with her uselessness at home, gone out to earn her own living.
 A secret Chinese tribunal in Sacra- mento, Cal, IS said to have condemned a man to be hanged for not paying his debts, and to have caused the execution of the sentence without delay.
 John Wilkes Booths remains were from Washington several years after the war by his mother and brother and brought to Baltimore and buried in Greenmount, in the family lot.
 It is asserted that people in New Hampshire have deposited over $10,- GOO, 900 in savings banks in Massachu- setts, in anticipation of higher dividends and greater security than at home.
 American butter and cheese are win ming as much favor in the European markets as our beef. The exports of these articles for the present. business year are nearly double what they were in 1876.
 The Peruvian Government has or dered 35, 900 pairs of mems shoes of a Boston firm. They are to be furnished at S5 cents per pair. The firm had pre- viously filled an order from that Govern ment for 10, 900 pairs.
 Agents of the Russian and the Turk ish Governments met by chance in the Bridgeport Steel Works the other day, whither they had gone to contract for bayonets. One ordered 300, ,000 and the other 600, 900.
 A man in Tipton, Ind, was cured of dyspepsia by the use of pop corn. Upon close questioning it was found that he had eaten 353 bushels before the cure was effected. He consumed a stated number of ears each day.
 There has been very large impor- tation of arms into India, and England is beginning to be fearful of the resnlts which may arise when the natives are fully equipped with. fire arms and in structed how to use them.
 The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has decided that 8 mem- Der of the Legislature cannot be a Judge. In the case in point member has held the office of Judge more than two years, without, as it appears, legal right.
 The American citizens who have been taking guano from Morant Keys have been driven off by British man-of. war and taken to Kingston, Jamaica. The affair will probably become the sub- ject of long diplomatic correspondence.
 -" You ask me if can take any horse and teach him his part of the ring busi- ness. Certainly, for horses are exceed ingly intelligent, more so than many men, as any old cavalry or artillery officer will tell you." So says an old horse trainer.
 A deserted Ute squaw, grieved by the heartlessness of the Indian who had but a few months previously taken her to his wigwam, drowned herself. Before her suicide she formally and elaborately cursed him. The Indian belief is that such curse is potent.
 -Roderigo, a Spaniard, and Tomln- son, an eminent English athlete, are matched to wrestle in Rio Janeiro, the Spaniard stalking 600, ,O00 reis, and the Englishman 300,O00. It sounds more imposing to say 6OO,O0O reis, yet the sum is rather less than $500.
 The late Professor Sedgwick was in the habit of taking his dog from Cam bridge to the hills of Cumberland every year, and on each occasion of h1s visit the dog regularly left him and took g journey of some hundreds of miles over the hills to see another dog with which he had spent his youth.
 The President of the United States asked Diaz, by telegraph, what he intend ed doing with 12, 900 Remington rifles that he had contracted for in the United States, and Diaz responded: " It does not concern you to know whether they are for use in Mexico exclusively, o1 whether they are ordered anticipating trouble with America.
 A lecture WAS delivered in New York recently on German legend, "The Dance of Death" This proved to be Q picture of the past, showing martyred band of men, women and children of the Jewish race who, 500 years ago, accord ing to the legend, danced on rude boards stretched over pitched wood, until the cruel flames Tapped them into eternity.
 A few years ago Maine was the great est numbering State in the Union, but now she is sixth on the lust, and the business is rapidly falling of by reason of the wasting away of the forests and the competition of Western men. Ship builders at Portland say they can get pine masts and spars from the Pacific coast cheaper than they can cut them in their own woods.
 A prominent religious paper says that |" if people will persist in buying a handful of cheap jewelry, which some of the religious newspapers are advertising for $1, it must be, as Barnum says, be- cause they love to be humbugged.' We confess to no small surprise that religious journals should aid in distributing such stuff among the people, which is nothing less than defornity to everybody who wears it.
 A party of lumberers at Pontiac, Canada, the other day, one of their num- her a man nanoed SounarviIle heino vary