Connecticut western news., 1879-08-20
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

nhlnls'er a5 the hague, IS absolutely showed up with letters from Americ ans who fancy themselves heirs to large es- tates in Holland. Scarcely a mail reaches him without letters from some of the States o1 territories of the Union and from Canada and New Brunswick, earnestly asking his assistance to recover interests in estates alleged to be ready for distribution. Mir. Birney declares that he has every reason to be convinced that for several years past systematic and remunerative fraud has been perpe- trated upon the American people. There are no traces to be found of the estates mentioned. MT. Birney says that the notices regarding such estates appearing in American papers are the invention of agents who are deceiving the incredu- lous and getting handsome revenues from their contributions, given under the delusion that these agents are busy Tn proving their claims-to estates which have no existence. MT. Birney earnestly urges these visionary Amerlcans to cease their hunt after imaginary fortunes and keep their money in hand, since there is no estate in the bush.
 The district of Adabazar, within one hundred miles of Constantinople, is in a sorry plight owing to the lawless pro- ceedings of the Circasslan colonists, of whom there are about forty thousand, against about seventeen thousand other residents. Circassians infest the roads and rob all who venture out. The fields are deserted, for no man can use cattle in field for three hours without draw ing down upon him mob. Flocks and herds still browse on the hillsides; but they all belong to the Circassians, and no one dares to claim any of the animals as stolen property. The houses in the town of Adabazar are barricaded, but Circassians send nightly storming par ties to force the barricades. The bazaar is closed. Trade is impossible, as Cir. cassians dog the steps of buyers and sellers, and cast ominous glances at the cash boxes of the merchants.
 The protective tariff that it is pro- posed to levy on American lard and bacon imported into Germany is causing much protestation there. These articles of consumption have been sold there at considerably lower prices than the domestic articles, greatly to the rejoicing of the poorer classes, of whom many find 1t hard to live at all. Even the farmers are said to sell their pigs alive, and to buy the imported product. The proposed duty will thus fall directly upon the poorer classes, and since lard i and pork form Q considerable part of their diet, will be more oppressive than similar duty upon almost any other | article of food.
 After forty-four years of imprison- ment for the crime of murder which he never committed, man named Galley has been pardoned in England. Galley was tried and convicted at Exeter along with another man, Oliver, as the perpe. trators of murder near Moreton- Hamp stead. The chief witness against him was woman then lying in jail, who pro- cured her release as a consequence of the evidence she gave. Galley had no counsel, but he did not cease to protest his innocence; and after the conviction of the pair Oliver acknowl, dged his own guilt but declared the other to be inno- cent. At this late day an examination of the evidence shows clearly that Galley was at Dartford in Kent at the time the murder was committed.
 There isn't much to say of the duel between Doctor (name undivulged) and John W. Gibbs, of Baltimore, except that 1t was as foolish as most duels are, and about as fatal. The Doctor has 8 ball in his shoulder, unless it has been extracted, and MT. Gibbs may or may not be prosecuted for violation of the law. It is so vehemently denied that there was woman in the case that it may be reasonably suspected that there was. The Doctor had given MT. Gibbs the lie, but all this was sixty days since, and there probably would have been no duel, only good natured friends gossiped about the insult, and carried tales from each party to the other; so that Gibbs at last was leased into sending a chal- lenge. Gibbs's wounded honor, which he got along with nicely for two months until he was told how badly off he was, may now be considered as healed, and the Doctors shoulder will get we'll in time; but the character for common sense of both parties is irreparably lost.
 -Jchn 0. Arnold, San Francisco actor, got very drunk at San Jose, three years ago. On the following morning a dead body, bearing such strong resem- blance to Arnold that it was at once identified by many persons as his, was found in suburban almond orchard. A slightly crippled leg, traces of paral- ysis, and cast in the right eye were | marks that, besides a general likeness. ] led jury to decide that the remains were those of Arnold. A bullet hole in the head showed the cause of death, Now, Arnold returns to San Francisco, and says that, on the occasion of the San Jose spree he met the man after ward found dead, that they were att traeted at once by their close resem- blance to each other, and that while spending the night with number oi young men his double was accidentally shot. Fearing implication in the mat. ter, he had retreated to southern Cali. fornia.
 The pay of Bismarck from all sources, both as Prussian Minister and as Chancellor of the empire, is only