Connecticut western news., 1871-08-18
Summary of News.

THE cattle disease has appeared Tn Ire land. THE French Assembly has passed the Indemnifcation bill.
 A CONTRACT has been made for tunnel ing the Sierra Nevada.
 DUBLIN is quiet, the rioters having been fined and released.
 REPORTS from all parts of Arkansas say the crop prospects were never better.
 A TORNADO in Wisconsin caused i'm mense damage, two persons being drown ed.
 THE Prince of Wales has been installed Grand Patron of the Freemasons of Ire land.
 C1AGGETT, Republican, is elected Del egate to Congress from Montana by ], ,OOO majority.
 OWING to the failure of the hay crop good COWS sell for BIO each in Penobscot County, Maine.
 THE number of clergymen in the United States is placed at 81 LOGO; their average salary at $7OO.
 CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS has accepted the appointment of Arbitrator at Geneva on the Alabama claims.
 THE Illinois Democratic State Central Committee have called State Conven- tion at Springfield Oct. 4.
 MARSHAL MAoMAHoN reports the total casualties of the Versailles forces in the second siege of Paris at 7,514.
 NEW YORK and the New England States together have almost one-third of the cities in the United States.
 THE British House of Commons passed the Ballot bill, after an exciting debate between Disraeli and Gladstone.
 THE French Post Office authorities are about arranging a money-order sys- tenn with England and the United States.
 COMMISSIONER PnEAsANToN has been suspended by the President, Deputy Commissioner Douglass being appointed to succeed. ---.
 TEE National Division of the Sons of Temperance have arranged for Conven- tion in Boston, on Sept. 6, to continue for five days. -..
 ELECTION riots occurred in Paris, Lex ington, and Frankfort, Ky, two white men and one negro being killed and many injured.
 SEVEN dollars was received in Wash ington from New Yorker who had not paid the full amount of his income tax for the past year.
 IN the English House of Commons, Viscount Enfield denied that negotiations were pending with the United States for the abolition of privateering.
 NEW lodges of Knights of Pythias are established in Massachusetts at the rate of about one per month. There are now fifty three lodges in that State s
 THE female suffragists of San Fran cisco and Stockton are preparing to bring suits against the County Clerks fol refusing to register them as voters.
 A NUMBER of small boys, while hunting near Oreville, Cal, mistook 8 Mexican sheep-herder sleeping in the grass for 8 bear, and shot him. He died in few hours. . -'7 A DREADFUL MURDER occurred at Err ranoocy Eng, woman having been ruthlessly killed by some rufians, who also seriously wounded her father and | two children.
 THE rinderpest, which caused great ravages among the cattle in Austria fol the last ten years, has recently made its appearance in the vicinity of Vienna anc in that city itself.
 IN the Dental Convention, at White Sulphur Springs, Dr. HARTMAN, of Bos ton, read paper on the formation O. teeth, showing them to be fbrous. Int views expressed caused some surprise ant considerable comment.
 CITIZENS of the United States, before going abroad, should obtain their pass ports from the Department of State No fees are now charged for them. Ma turalization papers must be presented with their application.
 THE managers of the steamboat an, railroad lines of the Northwest, have de cided to make the tariff 25 cents per 10 pounds for grain, and 50 cents per barre for Flour from all points on the Mississir pi River to Milwaukee, Chicago and Du luth.
 GENERAL Powell, of Ohio, has sue the little Miama Railroad for refusing pass him on the list of August on ticke entitling him to passage during tn month of July. The question to be de cided is one of importance to railroad and travellers.
 THE fair of the New York State Agr cultural Society IS to be held in Alban on the 2d, 3d, 4th, 9th and 9th of Octc Der. Entries, except for fruits and fov CTS, must be made on or before Saturda, ,, the 2d day of September. The pr' miums are open to all corners, residen of New York or non-residents, on equ terms.