Connecticut western news., 1871-09-29
General News Summary.

THE British wheat crop is disastrously deficient.
 MONEY on call in New York last week, 3 5 per cent.
 THE National Guard of France has been disbanded.
 THE Knights Templars in the United States number 32, ,O0O.
 THE dedication of paymaster Hodge amounts to nearly one million dollars.
 AT Menononee, Wis, four seamen go- ing ashore in yawl boat were drowned.
 ACCORDING to French prophet, the earth is to destroyed by deluge very soon.
 SOME 10000 sailors attended the Sea- mans Mission meetings in New York, last year.
 THERE are 199 Lodges of Good Tem- plars in New Jersey with membership of 18,OOO.
 THERE has been severe earthquake along the entire western coast of South r America
 A SERIOUS disturbance is expected in Jamaica, unless the home government in terferes.
 THE London Times editorially deplores the continuance of antagonism between labor and capital.
 CONGRESS, it is said, is to be regularly beseiged at it's next session by the women's rights advocates.
 THE grain prospects throughout the French departments are far better than what is generally supposed. MAYOR HALL, of New York, has re- moved Comptroller Connolly, and of fered the position to Gen. Mcclellan.
 ALL the union torpedoes in New York are being hunted up and thrown into the river. Several boxes have met this fate.
 DAVID BURNS, of Newark, N. J., while drunk, mistook the area for the porch of his house, and sitting over, broke his neck. " F
 A LITTLE boy aged seven years, be- longing to the strong woman of O'Brien' s Menagerie, died of starvation at Storm vile, N. Y. ~.- p x-9 +. .z
 THE latest reported bala nces in the U. s. Treasury were: Coin, 1895, ,993, 973; currency, S6,O15, ,335 certificates, $15, ,S4s, 300.
 COMPTROLLER CoNNE11Y, of New York, has appointed A. H. Green deputy, and thrown all the affairs of the office into Greens hands.
 HON. SIDNEY H. STUART, former City Judge of New York, and counsel for the murderer Foster, died of typhoid fever at his residence. -...
 THE London Labor League has de- nounced the introduction of foreigners into English workshops as dangerous political precedent.
 THE Russia squadron with the Grand Duke Alexis, has reached England, en
 route to this country The Grand
 Duke will arrive about October 10th.
 GOLDSMITH MAID trotted the first heat
 at Minneapolis, Wis, in 2:194 second
 heat in 2:171. The third heat was made
 in 1:21. Her time at Milwaukee, second
 heat, was 2:17.
 MAJOR HODGE the defau1ter, was ap
 pointed Paymaster in the regular army
 January IT., 1867, having previouslJ J
 served as Additional Paymaster in the
 volunteer service.
 THE Committee of Reception for the Duke Alexis, in New York, number, three hundred we'll known gentlemen and each of them are to subscribe $10( . to defray expenses.
 EIGHTEEN months imprisonment witl hard labor is the penalty imposed by th' English court upon Clark, the Amer1cal , who forged bonds in the name of Cole
 banker, of Lyons and New York
 A CORRESPONDENT telegraphs that h. traversed the Mont Cenis tunnel in thir ty-eight minutes that the air in tn tunnel is excellent and the rails perfectl,, level, and that the entire work has beer
 admirably done.
 HENRY O.. WRIGHT, a conductor, o Bridgewater, Mass, was arrested on charge of manslaughter, for causing tn , death of Mrs. Catharine Butterworth | who was killed while leaving his trail I after it had started.
 5 THE Court-martial at Marseilles sen = fenced the agent of the Internationalists l M. Pavy, to term of imprisonment, an' l M. Paynis and large number to b l shot, for passing over to the insurgent t on the 4th of April. IT is said that new description C lava is being thrown from the crater C | Vesuvius slnce the last eruption, consist :. ing of crystalized salt. This beautifr e phenomenon has hitherto been unknow I in volcanic natural history. r A MAMMOTH cheese, weighing. 800 . pounds, the product of one days mill . ing of 2,2O0 cows, yielding 30, 1O5 pound . of milk, manufactured in Erie County = N. r., was deposited for exhibition i I the International Exhibition, Buffalo. e THE entire congregation of the Africa ,t Methodist Episcopal Zion church
 Newark, N. J., embracing about thrt
 hundred members, with their paste 'e Rev. J. l.. Sweares, have voted unan e mously to go over to the Methodist Epi h copal church. le PROFESSOR DENNIS H. MARIAN, of We le Point, renowned as an eminent milita1 lc engineer, whose works have becon standard in military circles the wor d over, committed suicide by jumping fro E. the steamboat Mary Powell into the riv off Verplanck's Point. m THE caisson for the New York side ts the great East River bridge has bee oI lowed from the Atlantic Dock to u m 'a foot of Roosevelt street, where it will r1e7 sunk. The company hope to have Il Q mud scooped out and the New Yol .i~ foundations laid by the 1st of Decembe to JOHN KELLY, IT years old, employt it. in Flint Works, at Trenton, N. J., wm of walking along the second story of u Id factory, stumbled and fell through to hole in the floor into the flint crackl UT below. He was run into the wheels al D. his body passed out into the water b sn low, literally ground up. ed Vn
 an A CHINESE WDow.-A missionary TO China received an extraordinary ca .oo from A lady giving him notice that s1