Connecticut western news., 1872-06-28
Items of Interest.

THE fruit crop of Illinois promises to be immense.
 TEE Republicans will have ten majority on joint ballot in the Oregon Legisla- ture. s5ss HsEs
 THE Democracy of Indiana. South Carolina, and Missouri indorse the Gin cinnati platform and nominees.
 MosQU1ToEs have made their appear ance. A slight sprinking of carbolic acid will prevent their intrusion into rooms. as II s4 g, r
 THE Canadian Parliament has passed a resolution placing tea and cotfe., on the free list, except when imported from thf United States.
 CoUR1ERs had reached Zanzibar from the interior of Africa, with positiv in telligence that Dr. Livingtone had arr. ivet at Unyanyembe.
 TIE Venezuelan revolution is at al end. The insurgent Salazer after his a e feat and flight was captured, tried by court martial, and sentenced to be shot , OVER $13, ,OOo,Oo worth of property and 1,473 lives have been lost During the past four years, as we learn from the official report from the Q.. s. Treasury Department. 1e & fe.gsgs THE New York strike does not seem to be as great success as was anticipated. Among others 1500 men on Sewing Ma chimes have returned to work OF the ten hour system.
 THE American fishing schooner FraaaE zi,a, seized by the Canadians for an in fraction of the fishery laws, and con- demued, has been released on payment by the owners of the fine and expenses $1, ,OO0.- Ea
 A MEETING of delegates from a portion of the various trades unions of Boston and vicinity was held there, at whlcE committees wero appointed and prelirni. nary steps taken to organize a general union.
 k GEN. CHARLES H. HOWARD has pub. lished @. card in Chicago defending his brother, Gen. O. O. Howard, against the charge recently made by Gen. Hooker that he was responsible for the failure at Charlottesville. ss seS S@ E The Ma,,ufacturer and Builder reoom Emends covering the floor, near rat-hole with thin layer of moist caustic potash, f When the rats run over 1t, it makes then feet sore, and they soon abandon theil unhospitable quarters.
 THOSE who are becoming weary of the interminable ruffles and foupces which fashion has required for every costume may take heart at the glad tidings that plain skirts, perfectly plain, and witt long trains, are once more in style. THE testimony in the case of Justus Dunn, Randall's Island convict, who murdered. the keeper of the institution some time ago, shows that the boys art subjected to the cruelest punishments being tied up by the thumbs and lashed
 WM. HATFIELD, deputy Sheriff, wa! stabbed and killed by Ambrose E. Lynch, at Lynch's sisters house, Mrs Teets, in Alleghany, Penn, for as he al leges, criminal intimacy with his sister Mrs. Teets denies the charge, and de clares that the Sheriff was at her hous, on business.
 SUNDAY, in New York, Leing da, unusually prolific in crime, the las seems no exception to the rest The re cord for the day is positively appallin. with it's drunken quarrels, stabbing af frays, eyes gouged out, murders by COT ner leafers, together with the casualtie not less numerous. s
 THE Arctic wolves hunt together i
 companies, and if they meet an anims
 which they have not the courage to attac
 openly, they form into semi circle 0
 crescent, and rush down upon it, unt
 the creature, terrified by the number (
 it's enemies, hurries over a precipice
 and is dashed to pieces. when they scare
 out the body and enjoy the feast.
 SPMKs says the most uncertain thin
 on earth is the vote of school com
 mittee. He made one of these bodie
 vote to please him, @ year ago, by pleds
 ing two thirds to vote the other way, an
 telling the other third what he had done
 the first lot all broke their word, an
 the second lot, from sheer spite, vote
 as they thought their comrades woul
 not.
 The safe accouchment of Mrs. Bate
 nee Anna Swann, the Nova Scotian gian
 ess, is announced. The child, whit
 was girl, was born dead. It was enormous size, measured twenty-eigl inches from crown to heel, and weighe , eighteen pounds. It bore 8 strong r , semblance to its mother in facial line
 ments, and also in certain physical pee iarities.
 THE London journals are very seve , in their comments on the unlucky Alta } tas-the contrasts between their crit
 cisms before and after the race bei1 quite marked. The Standard says tl , American crew are not good enough s row an ordinary country regatta, a1 ) advises American oarsmen to learn ho
 to row before undertaking a journey 2 5000 miles to race.
 THE Hartford Comwq.t reports that u :; cutworm is doing great damage in tl ? tobacco fields of East Hartford, especial , in locations where the ground is dam One cultivator who had set out 80 plants, has found upon examination n e more than ten or twelve plants whi E have not been touched. The worm h e also extended his ravages to melon al tomato crops, and in some cases to CO !. and potatoes. sa- 3 -. r The Canada Case.
 The seizure of man in Canada, | A H.