Connecticut western news., 1871-08-04
News Summary.

GRAssHoPpERs are destroying thecrops in Western Minnesota. "
 SEC. FISH has withdrawn his resigna- tion and will remain in the cabinet.
 SIXTY soldiers recently deserted from Fort Hayes, Kansas, only eight of whom have been captured.
 FORTY persons were killed and many wounded by powder explosion on a Greek man-of-war.
 A CONTRACT has been made in San Francisco to send 600 Chinese laborers to the public works of Peru.
 IN 1852 there were 4,5OO, 900 sheep in the province of Buenos Ayres last year they had multiplied to 10O,0OO,00O.
 THE Prussian troops evacuating France will at once return to their homes in Germany.
 A WOMAN was burned at the stake in O public square in Peru, for being witch.
 Two new National Banks have been organized in Chicago, making nineteen now in that city.
 THE first bale of new cotton was re- ceived at Galveston by express from Co., lum bus, Texas.
 Coop FARM HANDS in the dairy dis tricts of New York command from 1925 to $50 per month, and board. GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN is featuring sensationally in Ireland, drawing i'm mense audiences.
 SIXTEEN hundred and eighty-three persons were arrested by the Police of | New York last week.
 THE last accounts from Fort Fetter- man, represent Rel Cloud and his party as making ready for the war-path.
 Ar Pittsburg, Pa, $. M. Loveridge was shot in his office, by Morris K. Hen ry, of Ut1ca, Michigan.
 IT is announced in London that Mir. Gladstone will abolish the Army pur- chase system by royal warrant.
 BERLIN announces the receipt of 4O9,- 600, ,000 francs from Versailles on account of the war indemnity.
 REV. Mir. Philips, Unitarian clergy man, of Kingston, Mass, cut his throat. Mental depression was the cause.
 MRS. Laura Fair has published an ad- dress to the public. She asks the news papers to cease gossiping about her.
 THE horse disease in New York city has become very serious, and the car companies are great sufferers by it.
 A VERY destructive fire occurred at Lisbon. Several people perished in the flames.
 !. THE engine Vulcan, on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, blew up at Coalport, killing the engineer, fireman, and four trainmen.
 THOMAS A. Scorr, is said to be Presi- dent of two railroad companies, Vice l President of eleven, and director in thir- ty-four.
 B. l.. BUR1NaAME, son of the Minister to and Ambassador from China, was married in San Francisco, to Miss Ella F. Badger. | GENERAL SHAFER reports that the num- Der of men under his command that were ordered on duty in New York during the riot, was 5,332, including 416 officers.
 IMMIGRANTS with animals and baggage for Winnepeg will hereafter be allowed to go through the United States on giv- ing their personal bonds. | GEN. CROOK, has taken the field against the Apaches, with five companies of cavalry, fifty picked Mexicans and a number of native scouts.
 SEVERAL important engagements have lately been fought in the interior of Cuba, and in all the patriots have been singularly successful.
 A HORRIBLE den of filth, tenement house in Cherry street, New York, being condemned by the Sanitary Inspectors, the police drove out of it eighty-four families.
 THE horse disease, in New York is now declining. The sick horses in various public stables are doing we'll and show signs of improvement. Few new cases are reported.
 THE United States Treasurer holds as securities for circulating notes and depos- it's of public moneys $376, ,947 ,55O; na- tional bank circulation at this date, $318, 761, 729.
 GEN. Palanca telegraphs that engage ments had occurred in Cuba, in which 100 insurgents were killed and the rest dispersed. Nine Spaniards were killed, and ten wounded.
 ACCOUNTS received at the War Depart. Indian agents report a most unhappy | OOAO1bAO1l OI tbLuOAS bA0 1uO1dus
 of Northern California and Nevada. A GERMAN and his sister-in-law il Brooklyn committed suicide because the husband of the latter and brother of tho } former accused them of improper inter , course.
 : THE mortality among children in New York city is again very distressing thi! year. 344 persons died of diarrhoeal af fections last week, of whom BIO wer, children under two years old. 2 SENATOR Thurman, of Ohio, bid in thu 2 Pennsylvania property eff the Atlanti' : and Great Western Railway, which wa ' sold at Philadelphia. The aggregat'
 price was $62O, 900; cash, SIC, 1000.
 THE reason that Kirk, the Nevada Cit, p desperado, was hung was because h f threatened vengeance upon the vigilanc e committee which watches over tn, e municipal affairs of that town. ' THE Communists convicted at Mar seilles have been sentenced to imprison T ment for various terms It is though that all sentences to death will be com U muted. z THE French elections have ended Tn = = victory for the administration. Of II V vacancies scattered all over France g s have been filled by men who declar 5 themselves moderate republicans, an r ready for the support of M. Thiers n THE Horseshoers' Protective Union, C Q Chicago have refused to allow member V to work in shops where machine-mad :. horseshoes are used, and there has bee n an extensive stoppage of work in conse e quence. 1t THE Sheffield Express train goin e South on the North Midland Railwa y ran into freight train near Chesterfel J. station. Two passengers were kille e outright and thirty reported injured