Connecticut western news., 1872-03-15
Itom5 of Interest.

MHK is to be sold by ale and beer measure in Maine.
 THERE are 1s2 patients in the Virginia Asylum for colored lunatics. MAINE. proposes to abolish solitary confinement in her States prison.
 TwENTY-EIaHr Indians have been pois- oned to death near Eureka, Nevada, re- gently. @-t E3z 4.- THE California Assembly refused, by a vote of 43 to 33, to exempt journalists from jury duty.
 THE bullion product of Nevada in 1871 exceeded $22, ,OO0, ,00O-nearly equal to the gold product of California.
 THE voluntary subscriptions to the French fund to pay the indemnity to Germany amounts to 23,OOO,00O francs.
 SOUTHERN Illinois reports fattering prospects of an abundant fruit crop, especially apples, pears and cherries. Gov. CALDWELL, of North Carolina, has offered $35, 900 for the capture of Lowery and his gang, and yet there are no takers.
 A PUBLISHED letter from Charles D. Hilderbrand, the Missouri outlaw, con- veys the unpleasant news that the report of his death was false.
 THE Vermont Legislature, at it's last session, fixed the election of Congress men in that State, this year, for the first monday in November.
 THE "mistake" of a druggists clerk caused the death of the wife of Col. J. M. Thornburgh, young lady very highly esteemed, in Nashville, Tenn.
 THE National Labor Convention at Columbus, nominated David Davis, oi Illinois, for President, and Joel Parker, of New Jersey, for Vice President.
 By accidents during the progress of the thanksgiving procession in London, five persons were killed and about thirty wounded.
 NEAR San Rafael, Gal, a Mexican, { Lower Californian and two Spaniards were murdered by Indians, who were afterwards captured and shot at the Old Mission.
 THE National Engineers Gift Enter. prise" eliminated in Milwaukee, in the arrest of President Charles D. Smith, unknown.
 A VERY competent authority, present in the Prusslan dominions during the war, estimates the number of men called to arms on the German side during that period at million.
 A LETTER from Londonderry, Ireland, including one half of 8 three pound ster- ling note, to pay $15, income tax left unpaid by the sender, was received by Treasurer Spinner.
 ENCOURAGING reports from the diamond fields continue to reach Capetown Diamonds were selling at auction at a decline of 25 per cent. on the prices re- ported by the previous steamer.
 THE libel suit of Spencer Ball agains the Eoening Dispatch, of St. Louis, fol SIG, ,00O, on account of the publication O. 0 police item, was decided, the verdic being one cent damages for the plain tiff.
 THE Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention to nominate candidates fol State officers and Presidential electors and to select delegates to the Democratic National Convention, is to be held il Reading on Thursday, May 30.
 A SPECIAL despatch from Rome to the American Register says General Sherman Colonel Audenried, and Lieutenan Grant, previous to their departure iron that city for Naples, had a pleasant inter view of an hours duration with his Holi ness the Pope.
 THE Auditor of Ohio has decided tha when sexton resides, as watchman, il the basement of church, the whole building must be taxed, the State law providing that church building mus be exclusively used for divine worship to be exempt from taxation.
 IT is report that Boston landlord re trained from collecting rent from one O. his tenants for several years, that h. might avoid payment of the income ta, thereon, and that by the recent failure of the tenant, he has lost the entire sum amounting to many thousand dollars. SPEAKING of the Alabama claims, tn London Times says that England vii only pay what the Geneva Tribunal o Arbitration decides she must pay. Eng land has never dreamed, says the Times of offering any composition of the diff culties outside of the treaty. If the treat is failure, it is the fault of the America. government.
 Two soldiers, named McCargue an, Mavanaugh, inmates of the Nationa ,, Asylum, at Milwaukee, were found dea i, in ravine in the woods back of tn , asylum barns. They were nearly blind and have been mlss1ng for more than month, and until the past few days hay been covered with snow. The thaw de veloped their wherea bouts.