Connecticut western news., 1872-02-16
.nrIs Items of Interest.

THE Kentucky Senate, passed the Southern Railroad bill by one majority.
 Two men were killed, and several in- jured, by a boiler explosion in Bordeaux.
 Two ladies have been appointed on the State Board of School Examiners in Cali fornia.
 THE thanksgiving for the recovery of the Prince of Wales will take place on February 27.
 MIR. ROBERTS was inaugurated as Pres ident of the Republic of Liberia, On New Years Day.
 THE blockade on the Union Pacific Railroad, is seriously affecting business in San Francisco.
 THE total receipts from, U. s. internal revenue sources for the month of January were $11, ,O46,O36.
 THE director of the official journal of the Paris Commune has been sentenced to transportation.
 No instance of dedication by the women in the U. s. Treasury Department can be pointed out.
 MOUNT Hoop, Oregon, is throwing out dense column of smoke, indicative of active volcanic action.
 ROBERT SMITH. was fined $50 in .Bos- ton for not giving notice. of 0 case of small pox in his family ss =
 GEN. -S1oK1Es has announced to the President, his intention to resign his mission at an early day. s0-.e
 U. s. TREASURER Spinner received, | from an anonymous contributor in H., | S05 for 11nnaid income tax
 A SPECIAL dispatch from Sioux City says that several deaths have occurred near that city from exposure. LOUIS ZIMMERMAN, of Cleveland, Ohio, aged nineteen, committed suicide by shooting himself with pistol. THE North Carolina Legislature elect ed General w. M. Ramson, of North Hampton, United States Senator.
 SOME twelve or fifteen persons were badly bruised by collision on the Union Pacific Railroad, near Red Buttes.
 {. AN order has been received at Water town, arsenal to forward several fifteen inch guns to. Fort Jefferson, Florida.
 THE State Temperance Alliance of Boston propose to organize q union of the New England temperance societies. | y AN infant son of. Henry T. Clark, of New York, was killed by his brother, aged three years, who threw piece of slate at him.
 THE Boys Home in Belleville, Ont, was burned, and one boy was burned to death. The other inmates barely escap- ed in their night-clothes.
 THE total destruction of the world is now definitely settled by the Second Adventists to take place in 1873. The exact day is not yet announced.
 AN attorney, of Washington, Penn., has been lodged in the jail of that place on charge of having forged voucher for soldiers back pay and bounty.
 ACCORDING to the latest Census returns, there are five million six hundred and sixty thousand and seventy-four persons in the United States who can neither read nor write.
 THEY have lately had a long and CO., pious rain in California, whereby millions of ground squirrels have been drowned, and tens of thousands of rabbits driven from their burrows.
 REPORTS from the Northwest show that the change in the temperature was much greater than first stated, and that there has been great suffering and some loss of life on the Plains.
 MR. BENTON, of Mississippi, gave care. full orders to his boy to shoot any one approaching the premises after dark. He tried it himself, unwittingly, one night, and was shot dead.
 A DETROIT girl named Marian Dixor e., oo,1-- of I,o
 tiful and accomplished of the young ladies of that city, appears continually in tAe police courts for drunkenness. THE number of grain distilleries il operation in the United States is 313 ) with daily capacity of 232, ,1S5 gallons } There are eleven molasses distilleries with daily capacity of 13, 321 gallons l. li DISPATCHES from New York merchant ] returning home from Berlin state tha : they will soon have ready for sale cos v tunes of linen and stuffs elegant, l trimmed with lace and fringe, from $1 ; to $60. sl.-, . .- s.a. .zs.4 a. THE Spanish gunboat Astuto has cap 9 tured an English schooner and crew The schooner was lowed to Manzanillo It is reported the schooner had alread Il landed contraband of war on the islan, when captured. THE disposition of the U. s. Hous Q Naval Committee appears to be favorabl ;. to an immediate increase of the Navy b
 the building of new ships, and it is prot
 able that they will soon report som 8 measures for this purpose. < THERE is a curious coincidence in tn r debts of New York, Pennsylvania an n Massachusetts. That of New York g $29, ,482, 7O2; that of Massachusetts j. $29, ,660, ,364 while that of Pennsylvani ,. is reported as "nearly S29, ,06O, ,O00." e THE late Isaac Rich, of Boston, wh n died very wealthy, left the bulk of hi |. property to the new Methodist collegiat k institution, called "The Boston Univel r. sity," of which the Boston Theologic, IS Seminary constitutes a department, n A PARTY of dog-fghters of New Tor o and Boston went to Vernon, Conn, IT indulge in their brutal sport, but thirt, ie five of them were arrested and taken l. Rockville for trial; They will probabl g stay month in Connecticut, workin re for the State. '" ,t THE steamer Hornet, has been libelle ,s at the suit of thirty per sons who shippe t io from New York, on the understandin st 't that they were engaged in the merchal 2, service and when out at sea were con ,s a pelled to enlist in the service of u ,o Cuban Junta.
 w A RESOLVE passed the Massachuset Id Senate, asking Congress, in view of tt of anticipation of tue effects of the Treat pr of Washington, to provide relief andi l. demnity to fishing interests, by bount 7 on tonnage, or such other form as ma
 best protect them. ...... Ar East Saginaw, Micb., Mrs. Hit