Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15
General NaMA SummarY..

MONEY is easy in New York at three md four per cent. on call.
 THE number of letter carriers em- oloyed in New York is 300
 In civilized European countries, the ,rime of abortion is scarcely known.
 THE production of anthracite coal in America is stated to be 15, 723, 030 tons.
 THE importation of tea to the United States reaches 40, 900, ,00O pounds yearly.
 THERE. are only 100 Europeans in Yeddo, Japan, and they have hard time of it.
 has been wrecked, and all on board lost.
 AFTER three years of steady search, a fugitive from justice has just been cap- tured in New York.
 THE growing cotton crop is estim ated by Charleston papers at from 5000, ,OOO to 3,250,0 GOO bales.
 THE Italians of New York have held 8 to abolish hand-organ grinding among their people.
 COAL gas was first used in England on the occasions of the illumination for the peace of Amiens, 1892.
 G. W. s. BROWN shot and killed Capt. s. Adams, at Memphis, for the seduction of his daughter.
 UNDER the census returns the State of Alabama only lacks eight persons of an even million of inhab itants.
 THE anniversary of the surrender of Napoleon at Sedan was very generally observed throughout Germany.
 THE next eclipse of the sun will occur in June, 1854, and will be total through 8 large part of the United States.
 ALARM about Queen Victoria's health is beginning to be felt in England. Her nervous system is said to be shattered.
 MR. WALTER MONTGOMERY, the actor, who was married on Wednesday, com mitted suicide on the Friday following.
 THE Massachusetts Labor Reformers are to hold State Convention at Fram- ingham on the first Wednesday in Octo- Der. t-='.H @@F
 STRICT quarantine has been establish ed on the Isle of Jersey, to prevent the of cholera into Great Britain.
 THE report comes from Madrid that the Carlists have been ordered to report to their leaders, and to be in readiness for a rising.
 THE proprietors of the Vinegar Bitters are issuing 5000, ,000 copies of a sixty four page annual as free gift to the American people.
 IT is admitted now that had the letter from the Corean government reached it's intended destination, bloodshed would have been avoided.
 A TORNADO passed over Labette Coun- ty, Kansas, demolishing two houses and moving several others. A MT. Scott and daughter were killed.
 VITAL statistics for last week in New York were 555 deaths, 456 births, 116 st1llborn children 52. Ar rests by the police during the week 1886.
 The entire body of churches in the United States bearing the name of Luth- erans comprises lite over 2,200 min isters, 3,537 churches and nearly 400, ,OOO communicants.
 S1x boats started at Halifax in the single scul race. The course was three and two-fifth miles. After @ splendid fight Sadler won by about length and half. Time 25 minutes seconds.
 WHEELER, the ex-convict, was tried at White Plains, on a charge of aiding and abetting in the recent escape of conviots from Sing Sing Prison. He was found guilty and sentenced to five years inn prlsonment.
 THE second mate of the American ship Rochester has been committed for trial at Liverpool on a charge of shooting a sailor named Frott, the alleged ring. leader of @ mutiny which occurred re- gently in St. Georges Channel.
 CAPTAIN BARKER and twenty-four o1 the crew of the British bark Japan wrecked on East Cape last October, have arrived in San Francisco in the bari Hettie Jackson. The third mate ant eight of the crew of the Japan wer, lost.
 Two negroes and white man have been hanged by mob at Caseville, Ky. for outraging the person of a white wo man in that vicinity. There were fiv' men concerned in the outrage, two O. whom were executed soon after the com mission of the offense. THE United States navy will not nov renew the attack on the people of Corea but wait the result of the British expe dition. It is thought that ultimatel, the United States, Great Britain, ant form an alliance against Corea.
 IT is claimed that only one passenge in railroad-trair has ever been killet in Maine. He lost his life by the fall o the bridge near Bangor, 8 couple of week ago. All other fatal accidents have oc cured to persons on the track or t' those attempting to get on trains whil in motion.
 THE public debt of the United States less cash ln the Treasury, on the 1st 0 September was $2, ,247, 122, 56O 39, whicl shows decrease of $9, 206, 279. 60 durin the month of August. The coin balanc IS $90, ,S13, 691, the currency balance $7, 968, ,345, and certificates SIG, 738, 700.
 A MAN standing on one of the wharve
 of Galveston, Texas, recently, saw tn
 dead body of man floating in the bay and large shark feeding upon it, H
 hastily jumped into 8 boat and rowe
 to the spot to frighten away the nor
 ster, but it seized the body and made O
 with it.
 OHIO makes for 1871 the followin
 livestock returns: Horses, I'll, ,349 cattle 1,646, 440; mules and asses, 21
 9S6; sheep, 4,302; hogs, 2,164, 40: Hogs increase 444, ,293 over the numbe in 1870, and sheep show falling o
 from last year of 749, ,424. The othe stock shows slight increase in eac class, except mules, which fall of. THE Secretary of State has issued notice to American claimants under tl Washington treaty who have not yet file
 their claims to do so at once. TT