Connecticut western news., 1880-01-07
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

printed by the New York Herald would
 bs hard to imagine. 4 poor r=sn goes Bellevue hoepItal, d,es, hIs family
 learn of his death only by accident and
 six days after the event. After ten days
 of persistent effort by the sorrowing
 wife the remains are returned in a
 mutilated condition, lacking a portion
 of the skeleton and the greater part of
 the flesh The effect of Q body
 snatching story is mild compared with this.
 English farmers will derive small
 comfort from the report on American
 competition which Messrs. Read and
 Pen are preparing for the Royal Con-
 mission of Agriculture. They affirm
 that the resources of the United States
 for supplying England with food are
 receiving every day new development,
 both in the extension of agricultural enterprise and in the facilitation of
 transport. Mr. Gladstone suggested
 some time ago that the farmers should
 turn their attention to raising fruit,
 vegetables, poultry, eggs and butter,
 but the Echo appfehends that even in
 this limited field they will be outdone
 by foreign competition. In that c2se
 nothing will avail them but universal
 reduction of rents.
 A Texas love story begins with
 separation and ends with union in
 death. Several years ago young pair,
 who had been joined in wedlock, lived
 unhappily, and finally parted company.
 The husband became wandering rake,
 and remained 8 sorry dog until two
 years ago, when he obtained enploy-
 ment on railroad near Arcola. He
 mended his ways, wrote to his wife and
 induced her to return to him. It was
 in August of last year that they resumed
 their domestic life. One day week
 before last the husband was taken
 seriously i'll, and on the following night
 the wife manifested the same symptoms.
 They would take no medicine, although
 they were rapidly growing worse. When Sunday night came she fell asleep and never woke. Her sick husband went to
 her trunk, took out the few trinkete } which she owned, placed them upon bel l person, lay down on the bsd beside her l and, kissing the cold face, dropped into
 gentle, peaceful sleep from which ht
 never aroused.
 !, A tragic death has created 8 pre- judice against the Government ii 7 Alsace- Lorraine. A German gendarn' named Woehler, stationed at Dame marie, had for several days been II possession of warrant for the arrest o l. Hollsnder, 8 soldier who, having selected the French nationality after tn
 annexation of Alsacs by Germany, wa
 forbidden to visit his parents at Dame :, marie. The gendarme met Hollende
 one Sunday morning as he was return ing from church at Hagenbach with - friend, and Hollender at once took t his heels, pursued by the gendarme = who called upon him to stop. This h D refused to do and as the gendarm was en horseback, he took to som marshy ground upon one side of tn
 road. His pursuer followed him sho1 - distance, but finding that his horse wa L. sinking up to his fetloeks, he agai a called upon him to stop, and threatene s to fire if his order was disobeyeG Hollender, who was about twenty va I'd u ahead, took no notice of this threat, bu l. continued his flight, and the gendarm | Roko f. In clearinghouse recently :. young man on turning off his gas sa h the words, "Confess thy sins," d phosphorescent characters on the wal a He was surprised, but listening, theugt e he heard some young ladies outside th n door waiting to observe the effect | him. So pretending to be frightened i "a the match-scratch hs fell on his knee a and confessed out loud that he had fri a quently kissed one of the young ladie d in the dark-the one whom he had tf
 best reason to susp ect of playing tf n trick. That young lady won't play an
 more sudh tricks immediately. Sn , thinks he is mean, horrid thing.
 ,r A Dakota man was moving his famil n into new house, and left his stove fC 1t the last trip. Within hundred steps ( d the house his wife was taken i'll. Lsa1 1t ing the two youngest children in dr l. goods box on the hand-sleigh, he helpe [, her and two other children into tn W house, where, in order to prevent thei d freezing, they were all put to bed. H :, then returned for the two children an 5, was frozsn to death before he reache 'l them. The wife lay in bed until tn Il next day without fra or food. Tn ,- father lay dead near the oorpses of hi h two boys in the box, but although th 8 children in bed with their mother wer l. frozen nearly to d2ath, it is believe s that they will recover.
 A pretty American girl in Rome wen U frequently into the streets unattended . contrary to the custom there. The younl J Romans followed and annoyed her, unti ' che invented novel method of rebufin; them. She provided herself with pooketfuI of centesimi, each the value O ;, a fifth of 8 cent, and whenever mal
 spoke to her, pretending to utterly mis , take his words, she gracefully extended r her hand and dropped this fifth of csn 9 in his hard, saying, in her broker ', Italian, Hungry, are you, poor man
 Well, take this and buy some bread"
 The London Building NeaOs say . that the extraordinary demand for Ital A ian marble has raised 8 question as tC