Connecticut western news., 1871-08-11
Summary of News.

 in Sydney, New South Wales.
 A SERIOUS riot has occurred in Porto Rico, two negroes being killed.
 MIR JOHN SI1DEL1, we'll known from his connection with the famous Trent affair, Is dead.
 THE French Assembly has postponed the consideration of the tax on raw ma terials.
 THREE of the crew of the Storm Bird have been killed by natives of the New Hebrides.
 THE President has appointed Dorrance Atwater of Connecticut to be Consul at Tahita, Society Islands.
 ELECTION in Iowa is on the second Tuesday in October, which this year will be the 10th
 AN expedition to observe the eclipse at Cape York in December is being formed at Melbourne.
 ONE case of cholera has been reported in England the disease has also appear ed in the South of France. Utah has about 8O,0OO, Mormons, and about one-half of them are of foreign birth.
 HE ASSlSGauG WILL S5, GOO, GOO of bonds and sell $7,00O, ,000 of gold during the month.
 FIFTY or more prisoners are on trial in the Island of Martinique for complicity in the late insurrection.
 MARRIAGES between cousins are allow able in Kentucky, and the result is said to be clearly visible in the idiot and lu- natic asylums of the State.
 THE new Spanish Ministry has resol- we'd to put down the instruction in Cuba, regardless of all sacrifices of life and means.
 ANDREW and Crawford Barnes, broth CTS, of Manton, R. l., were drowned off Bullock's Point, by the capsizing of their boat .
 MEXICAN advices represent that the prospects of the election of Juarez are the best, but Congress may declare Diaz fPresident
 | ACCORDING to the census returns the number of dwellings in New York City is 64, ,029, and the number of families 175, 800.
 THERE are in New Haven 374 manu- featuring establishments in which is in- vested capital amounting to nearly $1O,- OOO,OO ..
 THE Asiatic cholera has appeared in England and France. It is steadily marching westward. Are we prepared for 1t here?
 AN unknown man was found in 8 field near New Haven, Conn.,. with bis throat cut and his mouth filed with rags. He had been murdered. ---.-
 DURING July the number of applica- tions at the Patent Office were 1872, and in response 1,121 patents and trade 1 marks were issued.
 JAY COOKE has offered quarter sec- ton of land on the North Pacific railroad to the family of each soldier who fell in the late riot in New York.
 THREE New York young men, attempt ed to cross from the Canadian to | e American side in a small boat, and were |, carried over Niagara Falls.
 THERE are but Al 900 Methodists, of all sorts, and only about 4,5OO Indepen- dents, with 8 like number of Baptists, in all Ireland.
 THERE are now five ministers of the Methodist Church in Utah. The church at Salt Lake City, organized May "A, iF1S7O, has membership of 51.
 THE local fishing laws are suspended at Prince Edwards Island, pending the ratification of the Washington Treaty by the Legislature.
 By the upsetting of boat at Renovo, Clinton County, Penn., Miss Lillie tUhric, and Mrs. W. Rex of Philadelphia, were drowned. Their bodies were recov-
 cred:
 ALL Americans visiting Europe should
 take passports, especially the naturalized
 citizens of the United States, as the lat
 ter cannot get them there without pa pers proving their identity. THOMAS BROWN, aged twenty-seven [ years, committed suicide at Lockport, N. Y, by shooting himself in the head with revolver. Cause, despondency from the loss of his wife by death. , ABOUT four miles from Cincinnati re- , sides a hermit dog. He lives in a cave in the ground. He refuses to be domes- ticated, yet is not wild, and appears friendly to all those who call on him. PARIS does not possess one steam fire engine, nor any engine better than those . is use fifty years ago. There is not 8 , single engine on the river, and none o1 the engines employed are drawn by horses.
 THE New Jersey Republican State
 Committee has called State Convention to nominate Republican candidate for Governor, to be held at Taylor Hall. Trenton, on Thursday, Sept 7, at noon THE s' New York State " and the B" Pleasant Valley :" Grape Growers Asso 5 citations will hold joint fair in Ham f mondsport, Steuben, N. Y., opening or 3 the 26th of September. 3 AN AMERICAN schooner, the Samuel ) Gilbert, of Gloucester, has been seized at the mouth of the St. Lawrence Rivel by Canadian cruiser for violation of the fishing law. She was loaded with fresh g fish.
 5 IT is rumored that the Duke of Suther- . land, MT. John Fender, and MT. Fowler . the eminent engineer, Ire about to pur f chase the Suez Canal for 96, coo, ,O00 g The undertaking cost the French com g pany e22,OOO,OOO.
 : A LITTLE girl of five summers was se u verely stung by hornet, and, running . into the house, she told her mother that she had been bitten by something tha looked like Ga yellow carriage with th' :, top turned back" Q PHGBE Cary, the younger of the well r known Cary sisters, died at Newport . . She was 46 years old. Alice Cary dieo Q last Febuary. and it is believed that he ' sister, who had been her companion fo ' forty years, never recovered from thu shock.
 | THE sApaches made a raid on Caml F Bowie, Arizona, and ran off herd o . beef cattle from within musket-shot o
 the parade-ground. They also killed { q lbutcher named McDougall. and a Mexi ' can. The troops killed and wounded