Connecticut western news., 1872-04-26
Items of Interest.


 ed from Belgium. t
 BANGOR, Me-, families are sending to Sweden for servant girls.
 THE abrogation of the passport system in France has taken effect. -,
 SEVERAL prominent Mormons have been appointed to proceed to Europe on missions.
 FIVE families, embracing thirty per sons, left one town in Maine, to settle in Tennessee.
 THE Italian Bee Company, at Des Moines, Iowa, has commenced business with $50 hives.
 THERE are now in the prisons of Yer sailles twenty-two communists under sentence of death.
 A TRUE bill has been found against the Tichborne claimant, charged with forgery and perjury.
 A SPANISH steamer has landed 1000 men at Santiago de Cuba, to reinforce the army on that island.
 Gov. GEARy, of Pennsylvania, has signed the bill permitting persons ac- cused of minor crimes to testify in their own behalf.
 THE grooves in rife guns serve only to direct, not to impel, projectile. They give no increased initial velocity, but rather decrease it.
 DURING the past eighteen years, there have been fifty boats blown up on Western rivers, killing three thousand and eighty-three persons.
 THE largest lake in the world is Lake Superior, which is truly an inland sea, being four hundred and thirty miles long and one thousand feet deep. THE Pope has refused to receive the sum of money offered to him by the Ital ian government When he wants money he will receive it only from the Catholic world.
 A COMMITTEE of one hundred citizens is formed in San Francisco, called the Committee of Safety" to guard the interests of that city against railroad mo nopolists.
 THE National Democratic Committee will meet in Washington in order tc adopt measures to secure the organiza tion of the Democratic party for the Presidential campaign. s
 THERE IS no truth whatever in the re port telegraphed from Europe that Queen Victoria's visit to Germany wa: the precursor of her abdication in favor of the Prince of Wales.
 THE U. s. House Committee on Way and Means having taken off the stamp duty on matches, the revenue will be re duced thereby $2,250,00O. The tariff or copper has been reduced 1 per cent.
 THE coal owners of South Staffordshire in England, have granted the demand O. the men for the nine hour system. [ the request had been refused, at leas 10000 men would have struck work.
 THE experiment of employing Swedish laborers in Moore County, Georgia, ha proved a failure, many of them having violated their contracts and left their em ployers. Much disappointment is felt a the result.
 Jos. B. AaNEw, who recently died il Appanoose Township, Hancock County H., at the age of fifty eight years, i said to have been the person who firet the Nauvoo temple at the time of tn, Mormon war.
 ENGLISH journals are still discussing the claims from various standpoints, bu nearly all agree in affirming that the min istry must adhere to it's position in re fusing to submit to arbitration on the in direct claims.
 INQUIRIES have been instituted by tht Spanish government in regard to the cast of Dr. Howard, who was recently sen fenced to imprisonment in a penal settle ment by the Spanish authorities in Cuba In the meantime Dr. Howard will remain under good treatment at Cadiz.
 THE Green Mountain Cheese Factory at Peru, Vt, worked up 4s9, 23O pounds of milk in 94 working days last year making 57, Al pounds of green and 5O, ,12z pounds of cured cheese. This was at tht rate of 8. 63 pounds of milk to one pound of green cheese, and 9.9 to one pound ot cured.
 FHTY-Two buildings at Lone Pine Cal, about three-fourths of the entire town, were shaken down by the recen earthquake. Twenty-seven persons were killed there, and thirty-four seriously injured. While the survivors wer, interring the dead, the cemetery was il @ constant tremor, with occasiona shocks.
 FRANK WILSON, three years old. living at Newberg, died, as was supposed, ant the funeral was arranged to take place The child was placed in the coffin and tht preparations for the burial completed Soon afterward indications as of fife ap peared, and the funeral was postponed indefinitely.
 TEE Chief Engineer of the Fire De partment of New York reports that in tho year ending April 10 there were 1,37( fires, causing loss of $1, ,633, ,253, com pared with 1, JOS fires and loss of $2, 389, 253 for the year ending April 10 1871. The fires increased "A per cent and the loss diminished 31 per cent.
 A VERY sad story of parental cruelty ii reported from Poughkeepsie: An in quest was held on 8 young girl who dieG of '' exposure, :" according to the verdict If the testimony is credible she was usec most cruelty by her father, who horse whipped her, threw her into a creek and otherwise brually tortured her.
 A CIRCULAR is issued in London 1n viting subscriptions for 45, 900 shares ir the Great Western Telegraph Company which proposes to lay telegraph cable direct from England to New York anc thence to the West Indies The shares are twenty pounds each. The total cap ital of the company is fixed at e1, $50, GOO.
 Two young colored men fought due with small swords in New Orleans, not long ago, and one was slightly wounded in the breast. One is the son of an in ternal revenue assessor, and the other 8 son of Custom-house official. The quarrel grew out of testimony given be fore the Congressional Investigating Committee.
 THE claimant of the Tichborne estate appeared in the Central Criminal Court of the Old Bailey, to answer to the Tn. 5intnnont Ho plaadad sEpot o,,;1&1,