Connecticut western news., 1880-06-23
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 NOTES AND COMMENTS.

SpT1t, -Wh1ch neuGra1Z6d the 1orco Ol 6n0 impact on the berg and operated as stays or lenders to keep off the hull, must be credited the fact that the British war steamer, Flamingo, which colhded with an iceberg ten miles from St. John, N. B., has not furnished another contribu- ton to the long list of wholesale casual ties recorded in the annals of the British navy. 1,-.,.. ..s..e.s-.- g5, ess,,.., e.srss
 H A FRENCH park-keeper recently ob- served at Auteuil man and a woman deliberately throwing little girl into the Seine from a boat in which they were seated. The keeper followed tip the boat and arrested the two occupants. They landed, while another spectator rescued the. child from the water. On being taken before magistrate the pris- oners declared that they threw their daughter into the Seine to teach her to swim. e<tet.
 ONE MAN has his head cut open or gets bullet through his lungs, and lives a green old age. Another man bricks his finger with pin and dies before the month is out. An ocean steamer plunges, head on, into an iceberg, and crawls safely to port without the loss of even oneIpassenger's life. ASound steamboat is run down by another steamboat on what should be one of the safest water highways in the world, within a few miles of dozen towns and villages, and swiftly settles to the bottom, drowning or burning to death many men and women. +sr
 GENERAL GIBBoN, the old commander of the famous Iron Brigade of Wiscon- sin, attended with his wife the recent soldiers meeting at Milwaukee. Mrs. Gibbon, who had accompanied her bus band throughout his campaigning and who was almost worshiped by the com mand, rode with him in the procession. The widest cheers greeted the various noted Generals, but when the old sol diers caught sight of Mrs. Gibbon there was greater uproar, and they pressed forward, eager even to touch the hem o her dress, many of them breaking into tears and sobs.
 THE imports of merchandise into the United States during the nine months ending with the first of April amounted to $138, ,83S, 445 more than during ths same months of the preceding year, thei1 total value being $468, 213, ,622. The in crease in cotton goods was $6, 300, ,000
 in silk goods, $5,OOO,0O0 in flax manu factures, $6, 300, GOO; in worsted goods $5, 800, ,OOO; and in iron, $21, ,5OO, ,OOO The increase of imports of many impor | tant raw materials has been about 10( per cent, that of hides 75 per cent, ane that of woolen goods 500 per cent. The increase of imports of coffee has beer $11, ,OO0, ,OOO, and that of tea $6, 800, 900 THEY tell this story of Col. Greene, thu veteran editor of the Boston Post. Tn, compositors in the office thought the, were not getting pay enough and the, l struck. It was not so easy then as nov to find a sufficient number of men tt equip composing room. But the gen tlemen in the editorial department wer
 practical printers and they immediatel, repaired to the composing room, pickee up their own copy, stood up at the case and went to work, Colonel Greene among the rest. The Colonel set up about thousand ems, and then turning over tn
 matter to the man next him pulled o1 his apron and said to the strikers: ''Yo1 may as well go to work have tried for an hour and I think it worth tn
 money" .. ,-e s. -7t
 All SAM, the Mongolian cracksman sent to the Nevada Jail for fifteen day because he attempted to steal som goods from the market one night b.
 means of hooked wire which he shove
 between the bars of the gate, has bee
 discharged from custody, his term hay ing expired. As he left the bastile, h
 shook hands with the jailer and under
 sheriff and told them they were yer
 good men. "I suppose you will com
 back and see us some time, won't you
 asked the jailer. An Sam made 3 power
 full effort to wink and remarked wisely
 ooh, mo- Me welly good Chinama
 now. Wicked part alice gone; ale
 cheatum, swearum, stealum, ieum, sta in jail :; only good part he come out"
 THERE is considerable excitement g
 Fort Union, New Mexico, among tn } officers and men. The water wagon di
 not go around on Saturday as usual, an on Sunday the old guard was ordered t carry water to the officers. These O fcers all have servants, but the soldier
 are made to work for them, being SCI wants under-servants. One man refuse to carry water, and was put in the guar
 house. The commanding officer, Lieu l Col. N. A. M. Dudley, Ninth Cavalr, ordered him brought to him, and whe : he refused to carry water, struck tE
 prisoner, and ordered him to be shackle 5 and handcufed, and to have no food nc
 water until he would carry the wate The prisoner, up to the present writing l has stuck it out. He is a good soldie but refuses to work for officers servant which is prohibited in one of the article of war. Col. Dudley said he would pl I any soldier in irons that he heard e, 9 pressing any sympathy for the prisone
 THE Prussian Wends, the remnant :; slavic race once established in Ge l many, retain some of the grossest supe
 stitions of their pagan ancestors. IT
 belief is general among them that u
 heart or liver of dead infant or maide l of tender years, brewed with certa : herbs into beverage, will cure diseas e or inspire the passion of love in the col