Connecticut western news., 1872-07-05
Items of Interest.

JAPAN has abolished all edicts against christianity.
 THE Democracy of Missouri instructed their delegates in favor of the Cincinnati Platform.
 OVER 700 persons have lost their lives by the great floods which have occurred in Bohemia.
 ON the occasion of his marriage the young Emperor of Japan will open all his prison doors and set his convicts free
 BOSTON papers report that the bonded stores of that city are crammed with goods awaiting the reduction of the tariff.
 THERE were in 1871 in the United States 8, S,990, 900 horses, 1,276, 300 mules, 10, 1908, 800 COWS, and 16, 3S9, 800 cattle of all other descriptions.
 TENN1E c. CHAPLIN has been elected Coloneless of the New York colored regi- ment. The same evening she drilled the regiment, much to the amusement of the lockers -on.
 THIRTEEN hundred machinists, carpen- ters, and painters employed at West Albany, on the New York Central and Hudson River railroads, have struck for eight hours.
 DR. LIVINGSTONE did not seem anxious to be found, and, after delivering dis patches and letters, again hurried into the African forests, where he will no doubt be left alone. Y
 A CIRCUS tent in Binghampton, N. r., was blown down in a gale of wind, hud- ding men, women, children, and wild beasts in confused mass. Several per- sons were injured.
 IN 1871 the United States raised 22,- 239, 400 tons of hay, 255, 748, ,00O bushels of Oats, 12O, ,461, 700 bushels of potatoes, 991 1898, 900 bushels of Corn, 230, 722, 400 bushels of wheat, and 15, 365, 500 bushels of rye.
 IT may seem remarkable, that where as the United States buy annually from seven to eight million dollars worth of diamonds, that the industry of cutting and polishing diamonds has until very lately been unknown in the country.
 ANOTHER boiler has exploded; twenty five persons killed, and no one, of course, to blame. This one of Deaths most ef- fective auxiliaries belonged to a raft's boat on the Mississippi, and the acci- dent took place near McGregor, Iowa.
 MRS. LIBERTY KnKoRR, of Waterford, Me-, lately entered her brothers burning house, and at the imminent risk of her own life rescued her sister-in-law and two nieces, who had been rendered help- less by suffocation, caused by the i'm mense smoke.
 THE Boston Advertise,' cries that the great want of New England above every thing else is cheap transportation be- tween every manufacturing and trade center and the great wheat-feld of the Northwest. And 1t asks the Boston merchants what they are going to do about it.
 THE St Louis Democrat publishes crop dispatches from over 100 points in Miss ouri, Kansas, Illinois, Iowa and Nebras- ka, which represent that the winter wheat is very poor. A large amount has been plowed up, and the remainder will yield only from one-third to half crop. There is very little old wheat on hand.
 THE report that two or three armed expeditions have sailed for Cuba from various points on our coast are not cred tied. The story is believed to have been started by persons anxious to irritate the Spanish Government, in the expectation that it will not release Dr. Houard, and that the United States Government will resort to other means than diplomatic to effect his release.