Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-30
RECENT EVENTS.

! 1HE losses In Pennsylvania alone, rom tno floods of May 30 to June 1, amounted to ESQ., 0o,00O and $500 lives.
 A REGENT cargo of Java sugar, landed at
 Philadelphia, was infested with swarms of
 sugar -heas resembling potato-bugs, and in-
 flicting a sting like bees.
 A BRICK and stone building in Chicago,
 weighing 5000 tons, and filled with ten-
 ants, was lately raised twelve inches by l.
 900 jackscrews, placed on waxed ways and
 moved fifty feet.
 JOHN H. SURRATT lately had his life in-
 sured at Baltimore. In the application
 blank he wrote opposite the question as to
 the cause of the death of his mother: "She
 was murdered by the United States Govern
 ment."
 A BRASS ring was sent from Germany to
 a New Yorker the other day, which was
 seized by the customs officers. The tax due
 to the Government was three cents, and it
 cost the United States something like $15 to collect that sum.
 WHO ever heard of cheese minel Yet
 one has been discovered at Palmyra, Wis.
 It isn't precisely a mine; in fact, being 8
 large quantity of cheese which was buried
 many years ago beneath factory and there in some manner forgotten. IT is said that hundreds of colored men liv- ing in North Carolina, owing to the low wages they receive, are thinking of emi- grating to Western, Northwestern and Southwestern States. Since last fall, 1t is reported, at least 15, 600 colored men have emigrated from the State.
 THE Amateur Society of Photographers
 of New York has been tendered Q fine like
 ness of Daguerre, the gift of the Parls
 society. It has been accepted, and soon
 will be sent over to this country, where 1t | mil 1o1n ha of oNoiatv give inspiration to the many young work CTS.
 THE wits who have so long made the
 United States navy the target of their ar- rows can now let fly few shafts at the English men of-war. During the recent re- view three of their finest ironclads were so disabled that they had to be laid up for ex- tensive repairs, and several others were more or less damaged.
 GREAT fields of asphaltum have been dis covered in Utah and Wyoming Territories, U. s. One field near Vernial, U. T., contains seven hundred thousand tons of asphalt. This asphalt was formerly crude petroleum, which, escaping from natural openings in the ground, flowed into the plains where it now lies and there dried. A CONSIGNMENT of silk and frst-crop teas, occupying sixteen cars, arrived in New York recently from Yokohama, via steamship to Vancouver, B. O., and transcontinental rail route to New York. The total distance was nearly 5000 miles, and 1t took twenty -one days to accomplish 1t, including a delay of about one day in loading on the cars at Van couver
 THE largest brook trout ever caught on this continent was landed recently at Spring Creek, N. Y. The fish weighed six pounds and two ounces, and It's proportions were perfect. This is one of the species of brown trout, the spawn of which was imported from Germany and received at the New York State Hatchery on February IS, 1884, so that it's age can not be more than between ! five and six years.
 WHEN the steamship Anadyr, of the Mes sageries Maritimes, was sunk the other day in collision off Alden, she carried down in- to seven fathoms of water 174 cases of sill yer ingots, valued at $50, ,0O0 francs, which were destined for the Indo-China Bank; 123 cases of gold wire for Madras, 113 cases of watches, several cases of jewelry for ! Saigon, valuable woven stuffs for China, l 500 sacks of Bordeaux wine and 100 cases | of champagne.
 1 IT is announced that the Chinese six com ! panies are evading the exclusion act by | bringing coolies over the Mexican line al | Tia Juana, few miles south of San Diego The boundary line is 200 miles long, and ! there is only one United States officer te ! watch it, with his office at Tia Juana. The l Chinese colony in San Diego Is mysterious ! ly increasing with great rapidity, and the ! attention of the Government has beer called to thls singular invasion.