Connecticut western news., 1885-03-25
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

rhIlO, lh luhb Ol tue uluuOWy NhAoh 1o- cends 1000 feet above the sea level. With the exception of the perch, which reaches 6,500 feet, and one or two others, 2,000 feet is the limit.
 JOHN SMITH, a brakeman of the Phil adelphia and Reading Railroad Con- pany, died from injuries sustained re- gently by falling under some coal cars at Asbury Park. He had inherited $20, 900, and was to have given up his position as brakeman on the day he was hurt
 IN Dayton, Ohio, while two little children, aged and 8, were playing in the yard, the little boy innocently asked his sister to lay her finger upon block and he would cut it of. She did so, and he came down upon it with a sharp hatchet, taking of her forehnger. The child's cries brought her mother to the scene.
 A DAUGHTER of prominent Canadian merchant expired after an illness of i've days. She accidentally pricked her left thumb with needle. She paid no at- tention to the matter till her thumb be- gan to swell. When doctor was called he found that nothing could be done to save her life, as gangrene had set in and the arm was dead nearly to the shoulder.
 Ar BEnLA1RE, Ohio, several years ago, some land was drilled for oil, but only slight flow of salt water was obtained. The field was abandoned and forgotten, the operators not being aware that they had struck vein of natural gas. Last fall a hunter accidentally lighted the gas in one of the wells, and it has con- tinued to burn ever since with flame six or eight feet high.
 THE pastor of colored Baptist church in Baltimore was charged by members with having run away with money be- longing to the congregation. On his return he showed that they had never intrusted him with more than S6 at 8 time, intended as fortnightly install ment of his salary, and then crushed his adversaries by asking someone to e1- plain how he could support himself and run away upon such an amount.
 THE horrible suffering of cattle in Kansas is getting into print. It consists of starvation and freezing. The streams have been frozen to the bottom, and cattle, in 'trustling" for water, have fallen on the ice, and, too weak to rise, have frozen by hundreds. Again, in a wind, cattle bunch in big herds for warmth, the weakest being driven to the center and crushed to death. Heaps of these dead cattle dot the prairies. "THE cost of the maintenance of re. ligion in the United States is estimated at one-halt a cent per annum for each individual" 1" said the Rev. s. T. Dekins, in the Fourth Street M. D. Church, Williamsburgh, N. Y. "The last census shows that while B, 163 lawyers receive S35, ,O00,0 900 every year in fees, 37,00C ministers get only S6,000, 0O0." MT. Dekins also said that S5,000, ,000 was spent every year to support the dogs of the country.
 AN Ohio paper thus enumerates some of the crimes and casualties of the roller skating rink {: "A New Lisbon young lady stole her poor old grand, mothers false teeth and pawned them to raise money to attend the skating rink. Two New Philadelphia girls stole crock ot lard from their cellar tc pay their fares to the rink. Two Uhrichs. vile girls bought coffee upon the credit of the old folks, afterward sold tho same, and purchased tickets to the rink"
 NorTowKY COUNTY, Virginia, the re. zion inhabited by the first settlers, and made interesting by "reminiscences oi Capt. John Smith and Pocahontns, is fast returning to its primeval condition. ''In twenty years it will be A wilder. ness," prophecies a visitor. The resi- dents are old and sad. The young have gone to more promising regions. Deel browse where cattle fed, and the cal and pine cover great plantations where the negro once cultivated corn and to bacco.
 MANY old soldiers, If they have on file any of their furlough papers, will find heavy, black signature which reads like "Drake De Kay" or "Duck Decoy," as some of "the boys" were wont to call him. Since the war, the young man whose signature became probably the best known of any in tho army through his endorsement of Wal Department papers, has had the ups and downs of the private citizen, anc the clowns" seem to have been in tho majority, for recently his friends tool him to the Asylum for the Insane a Bloomingdale, hoping that care would restore his unbalanced mind to th' health which business troubles and al old wound, received in the Wilderness have so badly shaken, to the regret of q great number of friends.
 A YOUNG couple who went to [ Methodist church in Selby, England, tC be married, found to their great disap pointment that the ceremony could no be performed until two days sfterward owing to the neglect of the Registrar il not forwarding the required notice il time. The young couple had taken ant furnished house, the wedding break fast was prepared, and all their friends many of whom had como long dis tances, were present. The morti6cs ton was increased when, after two day the bride-elect and the bridesmaids at tended the chapel and the bridegroom failed to appear. When the minister sympathizing with the young woman drove to the residence of the younI