Connecticut western news., 1880-02-25

AASAAhba OAUa9 " PuS uP p<pOVV &IAt ho S0u beat any main in the world Ave seconds on Toronto Bay, the race to take place in June or July, and be has deposited $500 forfeit as an earnest.
 A locomotive and baggage car on the Be-. laire & Southwesternznarrow guage R. R. in | Ohio jumped the track on trestle 80 feet | high and fell bottom upward down the em- oankment. Two men were mortally wound ed. t'f
 Rev. George R. Vosburg, who was tried 1 and acquitted in Jersey City few months | ago, on an indictment charging him with an | attempt to poison his wife, has accepted a gall to the Baptist church at Lawndale, sub. | urb of Chicago s.....-, .,.s
 The roof of the Corset Manufacturing Com pany's building in West Troy, N. Y, 50 by | l30 feet, was torn of by the wind Thursday, and carried across the street, wrecking two story frame building; loss $6,O0O. Nobody
 was hurt. The roof of building on First street was also taken of. ...: ' l Gitiwayo has dictated the history of the
 Zulu nation and the Zulu war to Capt. Poole
 of the English army, and it has been publish
 ed in MacMillans magazine. The king work
 ed himself into frenzy while describing his
 battles and on one occasion seized Capt.
 Poole's sword and hacked the furniture of the
 room in illustrating the incidents of the fight.
 The plagiarism of Dr. Lorimer of Chicago
 does not seem to have impaired the confidence
 of his people in him, as they have offered to raise his salary from five to six thousand dol: lars, as an expression of Itheir regard. The
 modest doctor, however. declined the ad.
 vance. Prof. Swing has also refused the gen.
 erous addition of $sOOo proposed to his pres ent salary of $70O0.
 A dispatch gives an account of the discov- cry of perpetual motion by William J. obern
 aud Wm. F. Hyett of Rockland, Ohio. It consists of large iron wheel containing slides, inclined planes, &c., and it will start , itself. Obern is Q miller by trade and Hyett is . mechanic. They have,been working at the machine for some time. A model has been 3 made and sent to Washington for patent z meanwhile the patentees lkeep the machine under lock and key
 Commander Lentz who has command oi 3 the government details in surveying routes t across the Isthmus, considers the Nicaragus t route feasible and estimated the total expense F. at 1852, 1000, 900, without any margin for con
 tingencies. Harbor improvement at the ter E. mini, and miscellaneous expenses, would in @ crease the cost to $sO, 900, GOO. The genera e tenor of his statement made at San Francisco d is favorable to the Nicaraguan as compared
 with the Panama route. .., i. Rockaway Beach starts up now with it if claim and bid for the position of leading wa " tering place. A thousand carpenters hav' ,t been sent there, half to work days and hal
 nights, to get up a mammoth hotel befor ,, summer. An iron pier is to be built like thos "a at Long Branch and Coney Island. Hal s hour ferry boats are to run between there an' Coney Island, the railroads will increase thei
 facilities and every effort be made to 'boom
 Rockaway as Coney Island has "booned" il ~ the past few years.
 ,e At social party i'll Paris recently 8 youn i'd man and his betrothed made 8 wager wit
 the rest of the party that they could kiss eacl no other 10000 times in ten hours. After tn r: third hour, when they had scored over 3,70C d the young mans lips became cramped, and h D. tainted away the young lady was seize ,o with brain fever which nearly killed hel
 Having lost the bet, the ladys parents refus
 ed to pay her share, and the matter was take aS l l. uhor dad <ho S' they must pay. ..
 ar Another Vanderbilt investment was mad .s on Fifth avenue the other day. William
 son, Frederick, bought a house there ~fo
 $125, ,0OO, within block or so of where hi T, father is building. Robert Goelet, nephel I of the miserly old millionaire who used to liv
 in the queer house at the corner of Broadwa Is and 18th street, recently paid $l47,0OO for
 plot fronting 50 feet on the same avenue, O
 nearly $3OOO foot. This is said to be tn e highest price that Fifth avenue lots ever sol
 for The location is one block above tn Windsor hotel >.n.
 70 Pierre valcour, Frenchman of Lockport
 N. Y, claims to have invented deep-sea tel , ephone by which vessels can be kept in con
 stant communication with the shore whil l. crossing the ocean. He has discovered hoy to insulate single wire so that immersion il water does not impair it's transmission o n electricity, and this wire is to be paid ou r from cigar-shaped metallic float, 30 fee
 long, in tow of the vessel Leaden sinker
 are to be automatically detached every 2O ' miles to keep the wire on the oceans bed, an if the inventors claims are realized, the oceaI passage will lose much of its present isolation T.. Last Tuesday was great day in Copake d Van De Bogart killing the famous hog 'Col
 umbia" of the Dinehart stock. Much specula tion has been indulged in as to what h' would weigh. Hundreds had visited the per from curiosity hundreds of dollars had beer
 bet as to his weight and numbers of little o guess pools had been arranged. The hog hat :, fattened to such degree that his eyes were covered from sight; curiosity was stimulated
 to it's utmost when the day of butchery and
 weighing came, and the hog turned the scales y at one Mousa,ad one hundred and thirty u seven pounds, the heaviest hog ever known U to have been killed in this state. The Dutch ess county sports were on hand to make good their past losses in this field fpossible and . terrible victory they won, it having been roughly estimated that they took home o about four thousand dollars. The day will long be remembered in Copake -HSlIsdate . HerGld.
 The Brooklyn bridge is again the cause of