Connecticut western news., 1871-08-25
News Summary.

NeWS summary
 -s THE income tax for the last fiscal year amounts to a332, GOO, 900; or about $9 per head. A 5 s= %s z sess s@ (
 COMMODORE AsHBURY has reconsidered his determination not to send the yacht Livonia to America. ST.
 VERMoNT's elections are hereafter to be held biennially. There will be no election in that State this year.
 OPPOSITION to the proloneation of President Thiers's term of office is said to be rapidly growing in France.
 THE total imports at New York for the past week amount to $9,690, ,472, against $5, PA, 146 for the corresponding week of last year. ,.s '
 THE next elections are to be held in and Maine. The former will be most vigorously contested. ,s.s .f- .s.
 THE city government of Paris has voted $70, 900, 900 to rebuild and repair the public edifces destroyed or injured during the reign of the Communes
 THE first cost of stock in Texas is light the price there paid being for, year lings, from $2 to $2.5O; two-year olds, $3.50 to $4 COWS with calves, $6 toSS.
 A FARMER in Mercer county, Mo-, killed viper fifteen feet long. His snakeship was looking leisurely over the fence at the man blowing, and he shot him. ~ ga -"<
 THE apple crop throughout Pennsyl- vania, as far as we are able to learn from our exchanges, promises even @ larger tyield than last year, when they were plentiful.
 ELEVEN thousand barrels of flour have just been shipped from San Francisco for Hong Kong, and another like ship ment will soon follow, with 5000 barrels for Singapore. = =--f. -s-...
 AN order has been issued by the Minis ter of Worship, forbidding throughout the Russian dominions the holding ol divine services according to the forms oi the Protestant Baptist religion.
 THE Grand Jury of Baltimore signed and presented indictments against Mrs Elizabeth G. Wharton for the willful murder of Gen. William Scott Ketchum and an attempt to poison Eugene Var Ness. .'..-.. -...s. ....As
 IT is said that the rapidly-increasine
 
 the timber and tilling the prairies, has so changed the climate of that state as to make it's value as a sanitarium fol consumptives exceedingly doubtful.
 A M1111NER in Troy, Mrs. Grimes, tolG her little apprentice, who had baked i1 arranging bow on g. hat, that she would shoot her for her offence anG the youngster, believing this to be true went into convulsions for the rest of the day. |
 THE St. Louis Democrm describes how a Deputy United States Marshal got drunk, lost prisoner, was himself ar rested by the police, was dismissed bJ the Marshal, was put off train of cars and was run over and killed, all in one day. n L
 LIEUT.. James Carlins, U. s. Cavalry has been dismissed the service for con duct preiudicial to good order anc military discipline, in ordering a pri vate to fire at target before which { trumpeter was standing, thereby killing the trumpeter.
 A CoLD-BLooDED murder was commit ted thirteen miles, from Denver, up the Platte River George M. Bonacina and l Mrs. Newton, his sister, were shot by { German farmland named Theodore Myers. Bonacina is dead and Mrs Newton willprobably die. .>os5.s3..
 A YOUNG man in Missouri espied { ! flock of wild turkeys, but as they were too far off to shoot he secreted himself under the bushes and "called" them Another hunter coming along heard the call, and concluding it was turkey SC creted in the bush, fired and killed h1m
 CoURBET's defence before the court martial which is trying the communis prisoners is novel one. He claims tha he joined the Commune for the purpose of effecting 8 paciication between it members and the Versailles authorities and that to his personal exertions Wa due the saving of many objects of ar during the siege of Paris. ... MIR. EDWARD RICHARDSON, 8 Yer monter, after residing eighteen years O ! the island of Hawaii, owns an estate 0 400, 900 acres of land, plentifully inter sp6rsed with lava from the volcano ( Mauna Loa He went to the Sandwic :, Islands poor man to earn his ivelihoo as carpenter. Among his other pos sessions are 500 head of cattle.