Connecticut western news., 1880-04-07
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

ana the talleSt man ln Missouri, dled few days ago. The St. Louis RepubH- cCt1o says that he served in the war in Col. Frederick Hecker's regiment, and at the time of the first parade of his company, Col. Hecker, noticing that he stood head and shoulders above all others, yelled out: "You rascal, get down from. that stump" When the enraged Colonel drew near to learn why his order was not obeyed, he saw what he afterward said was the longest bean-pole he ever beheld. | VICTORIA NORRIS, who worked for Farmer Jolly, at Browning, Ga., packed her trunk one day in 1877, and started to | go West, where her family lived. Jolly was to take her to the railroad station, and the last seen of her by anybody else was when she rode away with him. The ashes of her trunk was lately found in the woods, and identified by means of the iron bands and lock. Inquiry of the I Western relatives proved that the girl had not visited them, and Jolly has been arrested.
 LANGDoN w. MOORE, the wonderfully successful bank robber, who made $2O0, 900 by breaking into the vault of the Con- cord National Bank, and afterward lived in sumptuous style at 8 villa near Phila- 1 delphia, has at last been convicted ill | Boston, and sentenced to sixteen years Imprisonment He is not so much ap- palled by the prospective durance, how ever, as by the fact that there are several convicts in that prison whom his dis loyalty sent there, and who have sworn, | he says, to murder him. He believes they will keep their word, and begs to be sent to some other prison, but his prayer is not to be granted.
 | ACCORDING to the German imperial statistics for 1878 of births, deaths, and marriages, just published, the estimated population being A, 100000, the mar riages numbered 34O,O00, the births l., 785, ,O00, and the deaths 1,22S,0O0 In France the number of births was 936, ,000, and of deaths 939, 1000, so that the births exceeded the deaths by 97,OOO. In Ger many the excess of births was 557, 0OO- that is to say, that while in France the population increased in 1878 at the rate of .27 per cent, it increased in Germany at the rate of 1.25 per cent. The number | of marriages in Germany has greatly fallen off since 1872, when. 423, 300 were registered.
 A STRANGE incident occurred in Pear son county N. O., 8 few days ago. A three-year-old child was sitting on stile feeding chickens when @ large eagle swooped down at the chickens, scatter ing them in all directions. As the child was moving off the eagle made @ second swoop, catching the child in its tal- ons. With its prey it rose ill the air, but the child was too heavy, and the eagle managed to fiutter short distance to the limb of decayed oak. Its talons were so entangled in the clothing of the child that it could not get loose, and the weight soon made it come down to the came up and killed the eagle. The child, save some deep scratches, was uniniured.
 AT THE Church of the Advent (Ritual- ist), Boston, on Easter Day there was 8 strange sight. There are openings in the ceiling at each end of the church. When the celebrant, with his deacon and sub deacon approached the altar to begin the celebration, dove, which had been fly ing between the ceiling and roof the en- tire length of the church, appeared through one of these openings, rested on ledge and sat there quietly during the entire service. Underneath the bird was powerful organ with instrumental ac- compartment and @ choir of forty male voices. At the close of the service, dur ing the singing of Nanc dinaittis, the dove flew from its perch, and after mak- ing six or seven circles around the church disappeared through the opening by which it had entered.
 ] A FEW WEEKS ago respectable old peasant farmer in Roumelia, smitten by the charms of young gypsy girl belong ing to tribe that had squatted in the neighborhood of his farm, induced the maiden to listen to his addresses, and finally obtained her consent to become his wife. He received several warnings from sundry of her gypsy lovers, couched in threatening terms, but was so infatu- ated by her surprising beauty that he disregarded these monitions and married her. On his wedding night @ number of stalwart gypsy youths broke into his house, seized him in his bridal bed, bound him to plank, and deliberately sawed him in two, having previously strangled his young wife before his eyes. On the same night the tribe struck it's tents and decamped, nor have the author ities as yet succeeded in laying hands upon the perpetrators of the crime.
 THE GREAT grain producing districts of the United States have entered upon the growing season with excellent prospects for good crops. An analysis of the Sig nal Service Weather Reports from De- cember 1, 1879, to March 1, 1880, shows that all these districts, except California and the Upper Missouri Valley, have re- ceived an abundance of water from the winter rains and snows. The excess of water over the average for the winter months are as follows: Upper Mississippi Valley, 1.O5 inches in the States bor- | dering on the upper lakes, 3.65 inches , Minnesota, 174 inches Lower Missouri Valley .72 of and inch; Lower Missis- sippi Valley, .88 of an inch; Ohio Val ley, 551 inches Tennessee, 8.61 in the States bordering on the lower lakes, 2. A inches; Oregon, 289 inches; and New England, 92 of an inch. In the other y districts the deficiencies were as follows