Connecticut western news., 1879-04-09
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

same complexion which occurred in England some years ago. Ayoung lady belonging to Gan ancient and honorable stock " in Cheshire, hotbed of old county families, was in the habit of go- ing into Chester to shop, and generally took the omnibus, to proceed from the railroad station to the heart of the city. In the course of these excursions she contrived to become interested in the "cad of the bus," as it would be ex pressed in England. One morning she was missing, and, on her return home, announced that she had been married an hour ago. The most singular part of the business was that she did not re- main with her husband five minutes after the marriage ceremony, and it must be presumed that she married him under the influence of pique. The fam fly determined to try to get the marriage set aside on the ground of fraud. She had married under the name of Bevan, and they contended that had she given her name as Lee-Bevon, the clergyman would have recognized it and refused to have performed the ceremony in fact, their plea was that the suppression of Lee was sep2or essdo Vea'i, tantamount to fraud. The courts, however, de- cided that the marriage held good.
 The gendarme lately killed in the attack upon Nihilists at Kieff, in Russia, fell by the hand of woman, Olga Ras- sowska. Other Nihilist women figured in the defence of one of the houses en- tered by the police at the time. In an- other house was Mile. Gersefeld, daughter of General and distin- guished placeholder. She was noted beauty and but IS years of age. While firing her pistol at the gendarmes in the melee, she was wounded by bayonet and captured. On being carried before the Chief of Police, she said : q fired to-day only upon simple gendarme, bat on the next occasion we'll kill all of you, as so many mad dogs" The Coun- tess Panin, admired equally with Mile. Gersefeld for her beauty, was also ar rested. Her husbands mother is one of the ladies of the Empress's Court.
 Jesse Arnott, @ wealthy and respect able resident of St. Louis, was astound- ed when an officer arrested him on 8 charge of stealing dog. He went to court, and there met the complainant in the person of MT. Tomaskewitz, the chief clerk of a leading dry goods store. Arnott was sure that he had stolen no dog, but Tomaskewitz made the accu- sation so explicitly that the Justice did not feel justified in dismissing the case. Then Tomaskewitz quietly added that the prisoner had also stolen the doors and windows out of church, and the tombstones from @ graveyard. He had, in fact, become insane, and the first evil of imaginary crimes.
 An cold Texan" writing to the Philadelphia Times, in reference to the practice of carrying deadly weapons by the citizens of Teqas, says: They do not take the trouble to conceal their weapons, but in the rural sections and small towns every man goes heeled, '" as they say down there. With few ex- captions, everybody, from a cotton-buy- CT to @ bull-whacker," wears one or two navy revolvers strapped about his middle, and these are often supple mented by bowie or butcher knife, the ha1, 1f f1ry1>S nI, from his belt.
 A small daily sheet called news paper in Mexico cost $12 year. The paper is about the size of theater pro- gramme, and there is no mad struggle for news to fill it's columns. If they get the murder upin the Twenty-sixth Ward week after its occurrence they think they do pretty we'll, and then as 8 gen. eral thing the murderer has to call around and write 1t up himself. The morning papers are promptly delivered at o'clock, but the editors or printers don't lose any sleep on that account. The paper for next morning is all printed and ready for delivery before o'clock the evening before, and then the edi. torial staff and printers, two men as c general thing, go home happy. Some times one man is editor, compositor proofreader, printer, mailer-in fact, the whole establishment. He lives in his printing office, generally in the upper story, while the press is down stairs Some of the large papers, that rule the country as it were, have as many as three men on the staff, and one printer with several type-setters. A small en zine runs press that will print abou 400 papers an hour. They consider this g. big thing in Mexico, and point witt wonder at the gigantic enterprise of th' company that has steam press. 4 paper of this class sometimes gets a1 item of news as soon as three days after it happens, and in other ways shows ex traordinary energy. As only about one in ten persons can read in Mexico the newspaper business is not one in whicl monstrous fortunes are accumulated il few years.
 The shaft for the tunnel under tn Hudson was started four years ago, bu the litigation which always greets nev enterprise retarded it until now. Tn entrance on the Jersey side will be $40 feet from the river bank, that on tn New York side 5000 feet, while the tun nel itself will be 5,4OO feet long. Thi will make the entire tunnel about tw and half miles in length. The tunne will be constructed from both sides C
 the river, and men will be changed ever