Connecticut western news., 1872-05-10
Items of Interest.

Items of Interest.
 Mss NELLIE GRANT, was presented to her Majesty Queen Victoria.
 A BALTIMORE girl died because her lov- CT refused to kiss her goodnight.
 MIR. PARKE GoDw1N has assumed the charge in chief of the New York Eosni'sg Post.
 NovA SCOTIA shows for last year sur plus of receipts over expenditures of nearly $25, ,000.
 B. P. SEWARD, brother of Secretary Seward, died of apoplexy, at his home, Florida, N. Y.
 THE May interest on the U. $. public debt will be pad on and after the 24th inst, without rebate. THE tobacco crop of Wisconsin for the year 1872 is placed at 10000, 900 pounds by the Janesville Gazette. THE Fisheries of Canada are worth | $75, 132, ,000 annually. Capital employ ed, $15, ,000,O00 number of persons 75,- 900.
 THE Mutual nine, of New York were defeated in their opening game of base ball with the Baltimore nine, by score of IA to 8.
 GERMANY is to have but one execu- tioner after the 1st of May. He will re- side at Berlin, and receive $200 for each execution.
 MONTREAL is to be supplied with water from 8 river forty-fve miles distant from the city. The water works will cost five millions sterling.
 NEARLY the entire village of South China, Me-, Vas burned. Only four houses remain. The fire caught from Q defective chimney.
 MARSHALL S. P. LAWS, the post-ofice clerk in Boston recently convicted of stealing money from letters, has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment.
 FANNY HYDE was admitted to bail in the sum of $2, 800, her counsel claiming such @ course was the usual one when the jury stood ten for acquittal and two for convection.
 AN explosion occurred on the steamer Illyian in the Mersey River, causing a sad loss of life. Four persons were killed outright and three others danger ously injured.
 Two thousand cartmen in London struck work, and all business on the docks and in the warehouses was interrupted in consequence. Upwards of 1000 lab orers are thrown out of employment by the action of the cartlr en.
 THE Maine loggers are all out of the woods. The operations of the past win ter were more extensive than ever before known. The total product of the state, as near as can be estimated, of the cut of logs, is 700, ,000,0 900 of feet.
 JOHN MEYER, a German, began work in the East River bridge caisson. On coming out two and a-half hours later be was taken i'll and soon died from asphyxia. It is said that only the old hands can live in tho atmosphere of the caisson.
 PERSONS arriving at Portland, Oregon, from Sitka, Alaska, report great excite ment in that region on account of the discovery of rich silver mines within half mile of the town, and of rich gold and silver mines in other places on the adjacent coast.
 AT the present moment there is in Holland ship which has kept the sea since 1568, Not long ago this ship was still making the voyage from Batavia to Holland, doubling Cape Horn. This veteran of the sea is called Commissarier uco hOu1uS Fdu uSl ACluCs
 THE North German Gazette positively denies the truth of the statements made by the London Daily Telegraph in regard to the relations of Germany and France, and pronounces the rumors of grave complications between the countries wholly without foundation.
 A MAN named Cluck shot and killed his wife in Indianapolis, Ind.. After firing six shots and making sure of his victim, he cut his own throat, and mak- ing Q fearful wound. His wound has been dressed, and 1t is thought he will recover. Family difficulties are supposed to be the cause.
 THE Chicago plasterers have struck for ], S5 day, and the employers have been forced to accede to their demands. Thel C is some talk of second strike on May 18th, for eight hours The bricklayel , refuse to work with non-unlon men, and it IS thought that all the trades will de. mand increased wages in May. : AT Farmhouse races, near Dublin, GU rious accident has occurred. Two gen. tlemen were galloping in opposite direc, tions, when the heads of their horses struck full tilt together, and both horses were killed, the riders being thrown into ) the air. One of the gentleman had all ] his front teeth knocked out. ,. As the particulars of the earthquake in Syria become known, 1t seems that itf consequences were not as disastrous as the first accounts indicted. Antioch suf : fered less than the surrounding country , A letter dated April reports the num 8 Der of the killed among the country peo 5 pie as 1,65O, while less than 300 of the !. residents of the city perished. The gen eral distress will be but temporary, as l the prospects of the crops are good. t