Connecticut western news., 1872-07-12
Items of Interest.

Our of 1000 gallons of seized liquor recently turned over to the State Assayer of Massachusetts, only two quarts were found to be unadulterated.
 THE total assessed value of real and personal property in New York for 1872 amounts to over thousand million of dollars, or just about one-half of our na- tional debt.
 FRIENDS of the murdered Capt. Colvo- corresses are confident of their ability to prove that he had $8O,OO0 with him at tho time of his death, and that he was robbed of it.
 THE San Francisco Alto says that by the closest estimate that can be made at the present time, about one thousand acres of cotton will be raised in Califor- nia this season.
 Two boys who had been engaged in the riot in the House of Refuge, escaped from their cell in the N. Y. Tombs by crawling through hole 2S by 6 inches just like boys.
 MAJOR SIDNEY s. LYON, formerly State Geologist of Kentucky, and one of the most prominent men in his profession, died of paralysis, at his residence, in Jacksonville, Ind.
 THE Burmese Embassy which recently landed in England brought costly pres ents, among which was 8 magnificent bracelet for Queen Victoria, the gold of which weighs seven pounds.
 THROUGH the Cumberland Valley, Md, from Harrisburg to Hagerstown, the wheat crop is failure. Here and there one- half @ crop will be made the rest is thin and of no account, and is being ploughed up.
 A LITTLE child that had incautiously approached cage i'll the N. Y. Central Park Menagerie, and leaned its little face up against the bars was attacked by leo- pard and badly lacerated before it could be rescued.
 A HoGsHEAD of pig copper weighing over two tons was stolen from pier New York, by thieves who got under the dock and cut hole through to the hogs head, and drew the ore out from the bottom.
 THE U. S. Secretary of War issued an order directing that pursuant to the act of Congress of June 10, 1872, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned
 
 after June 30, 1872.
 Ho1zENBAKE and Lloyd charged with the murder of Colonel George W. Fish, were hung at Oglethorpe, Georgia. Holzenbake confessed his guilt, but Lloyd's last words were to the effect that the blood of no man was on his hands.
 A BOY of 10 or 12 years, on the rail- road track in Jersey City. between Mon mouth and Colgate streets, was caught by the cow-catcher of a locomotive, thrown into the air and over wall, some eight or ten feet high, and was thought to be fatally injured.
 ENGLAND was alarmed short time since on account of a sensational report which told of steady and great decrease in English herds. Enthusiastic people formed solemn league and covenant by which they bound themselves to eat nc veal henceforth and forever.
 AN unknown man was crushed to deatI between the bridge and the ferry boa at the foot of grand street, Williams burgh, New York. A Prayer Book was found on him, in which was written "Jas. F. Pape; his own: Aug. 25, 1851 9 Clinton street." He was apparently about 60 years of age.
 A SEVERE storm, accompanied by heavy thunder and remarkably vivic lightning, was experienced in Londor and various other portions of England A cotton mill at Bolton, near Manchester was struck by lightning, and some o1 the operatives were stunned though none were seriously injured. The "Lord Nelson" tavern ot Dover was also struck and, taken fire, was burned. Many o the inmates were injured.