Connecticut western news., 1871-09-01
News Summary.

, RUSSIA and Prussia are said to be mak- ing great military preparations.
 No United States Senator has been reelected in New York for many years.
 Mosr of the convicts who escaped from Sing Sing Prison have been recap tured. e,r.z F ssS 7,-s a !I.. =-
 FRESH strikes have broken out among the workmen in Leeds. They demand 8 reduction of the hours of labor.
 THE site for the. proposed monument to Captain Myles Standish, was dedicated in Duxbury, Mass, in the presence of 5000 people.
 THE Prince of Wales, bound from Hong Kong to Bangkok, Siam, has foundered at sea. Fifty persons lost their lives by the disaster. tt2
 THE rumored disaster to the schooner Stella on Lake Michigan is confirmed. Her hull was lowed into the Manistee Her captain and crew are missing.
 ONE hundred and forty one new Ma tional Banks were organized last year. Since the passage of the present law, 1889 of these banks have been put in operation. +.-- -.~ .-..... q.
 A GERMAN brewer in Jamestown, N. Y. enticed a countryman named Bachmann into the cellar of his brewery, murdered him for his money, and burned the body in the furnace.
 GRASS HoPPERs, in vast numbers, are appearing in several of the principal agricultural counties of Utah, and the de- posit of eggs threatens seriously the crops of every kind next season.
 THE cholera has appeared in the neigh borhood of 5Stettin, Germany. The dis ease continues it's ravages in Kgnigsberg, where in one day there were 70 new cases and 20 deaths, and on the next day 80 new cases and 27 deaths. zs,.>... rE
 THE Coroner's jury in the lamentable affair at Pittston, Pa. , by which seven teen men came to their deaths, find that the men were suffocated by noxious gases, forced down upon them by an explosion or caving of the roof. .ts
 THE amount of fees collected for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871, by the various Collectors of Customs, for entries and withdrawal-entries of merchandise. measurement of vessels, enrollments and licenses, entrances and clearances of yes. sells, &c., is $605, ,552.
 IT is reported that compromise has been made in the matter of the prolonga- tion of M. Thiers' term of office, under which he is to receive the title of Presi dent, and hold the position until the dis solution of the present Assembly.
 THE British Government has refused to accede to a request for the extraditior of the Communists in England. Queer Victoria is indisposed. The Mehamme dan rebellion in Northern China is of g serious character. A terrible typhoor has caused great damage in Japan.
 THE news from Persia is still contra, dictory. The Le0d7t Herald declares that the famine and pestilence are worse thar ever i; that there have been 27,OOO vic tims at Ispahan alone; that the crops have been destroyed, and that one-thirc of the population has been annihilated The details are said to be heart-sicken ing.
 THE receipts of the Government fol the year ending June 3Oth, 1871, were $383, ,323,9 ,944 69; expenditu res for the same period were $292, ,177, ,188 25. This includes the $125, ,576, 565 paid out as in terest on the public debt; but it does not include $12O,735, 147 IS expended in purchase of bonds for the Sinking Fund, which would give total net ex penditure of S442, 912, 1885 43.