Connecticut western news., 1871-09-08
News Summary.

se MRs. CoBuRN, accused of poisoning Mr. Buffenbarger in Ohio, was honorably discharged. s.s
 THE deaths in Paris for the past week were S23 in number, and included six rom cholera.
 AN unknown schooner was sunk from a acollison in the English Channel. Eight lives were lost. .HJ-
 THE Bank Statement of New York for the week shows a gain in the Gold aver age of S1, ,313 900.
 FORTY million dollars was the amount which the fishing interest of New Eng land stocked last year.
 THIS seasons corn crop in Maine has not been excelled for many years, and the potato crop is abundant. " I
 THE British Consul at Zanzibar writes that Dr. Livingstone, the African ex- plorer, is safe, and is slowly making his way homeward.
 THE reports of the damage to the rice crops in Georgia and South Carolina by the recent storms are to the effect that it has been very large.
 B. c. COOK, Republican member of Congress from the With District of Hi nois, has rendered his resignation, and his successor will be elected in November. INPersia it is estimated that there are about 50, ,000 Mohammedan Freemasons. In Arabia it is estimated that there are about 20, 900 Mohammedan Freemasons. THE death is announced at Lucerne, Switzerland, of MT. Charles Scribner, the head of the well-known publishing house of Charles Scribner, & Co.,, New York. .s.. ..l:- | THE vital statistics of New York for the week show 57 still births, All births, 1855 marriages and 537 deaths, which is de- crease of 33 from the mortality of the previous week. .,.r..
 IT is learned from private sources that, on July 27, 50 Indians attacked party of eight white men, 30 miles south ot Cheyenne, and killed three and captured three of the party.
 THERE are in the United States. 15s monasteries, orreligious houses for men leading the monastic life of the Roman Catholic church, and 336 convents ol cloisters for women.
 IN the war of l912-15, Marblehead had 780 men in private armed and pub lie armed vessels and in the army, with population of not 5000 at the time more than one-seventh.
 A CORRESPONDENT of the Portland Press claims that the damage inflicted directly and indirectly, by the grasshop I pers in Maine this year must be measur ed by millions of dollars.
 THREE men, named Underwood, Hast ings and Bacon, residents of Soutt Orange, Franklin County, Mass, were drowned by the upsetting of boat il which they were fishing.
 A COLLISION occurred between @ passen ger and freight train on the Philadel phia and Erie Road, when a conductor an engineer, fireman, and three passen gers were instantly killed.
 THE Governments of Great Britain ant the United States have chosen Coun Luigi Corti as the Arbitrator under tn treaty of Washington, upon all question not comprised in the Alabama claims.
 THE Territory of Utah covers an are of 7O,000 square miles, including in thi measurement large tracts of wild, broken rocky, mountainous country. But com parativelv little of the territory is fit fo cultivation.
 r A JOB printing-ofice, conducted en tirely by women, is now in full operation in Washington, and is in quite flourish ing condition. Four female com oositor are employed, and the work turned ou by them is pronounced excellent in ever respect.
 IN the Chatauqua Lake disaster case the jury returned verdict iD effect tha the boiler was defective both in materia and construction that the cause of tn explosion was too little water, and to- much steam. Capt. Murray is hell guilty of criminal neglect in using tn boiler at all, and especially for permit ting any but an experienced. engineer t have charge of the same. The jury ful ther recommend action in the matter O the part of the proper authorities.