Connecticut western news., 1872-04-05
Summary of News.

being something between flower and al
 angel.
 ] $. M. HEwLET,. the temperance lee
 turef, died suddenly in Meriden, Conn.
 lately.
 A SPANISH steamer recently landed al
 Gibaria, Cuba, HOO soldiers from
 Spain.
 THE nine-hour system of daily labor
 IS advocated in the large mechanical
 works of England.
 AN imperial decree reopens Sebasto.
 pol as commercial and military harbor,
 with Notifications restored.
 THE U. $. chief signal officer amour
 ces that the display of cautionary signals
 at all the lake ports begin on April 1,
 1872. =
 Two-THIRDs of all U. s. Presidents and
 three-fourths of all the Secretaries of
 State have been members of the Episco-
 pal Church.
 FRANCE having renounced the Com
 mercial Treaty with England, tax is likely to be imposed on raw materials by
 the Assembly. -. .....
 THROUGH Utah and Idaho, on the AL kali plains, the water is so unpleasant to the taste, that the inhabitants seldom use it except for purposes of ablution.
 THE officers of the U. s. navy of high grade, have petitioned Congress for re- adjustment of the rates of pay allowed to the officers of that branch of the govern ment.
 THE Davenport Iowa) Gazette says resident of that city has made Q discov- cry whereby sugar can be produced from corn, and afforded to the purchaser at 33 cents per pound.
 IN three States of the South the ne- groes outnumber the whites by large majorities. In Mississippi the majority is 1,3O5, in Louisiana 2,145, and in South Carolina, 126,14
 A SAD occurrence is reported from Cold Spring, Mass. A culpably careless sister, aged g, and shattered the arm of his daughter, aged six years. ,-.
 AN Eastern paper expresses the opinion that, if some of the zeal shown in its city in growing was turned into new chan nels, there would be most surprising re- suits from increase of business.
 A NEGRO was rescued alive, at Char lottesville, Va., recently, after lying at the bottom of we'll, covered with about fifty feet of earth and stones, for nine hours. He was but slightly injured.
 UNSUCCESSFUL contestants were paid $113, GOO in the last U. g. Congress, equal, at the rate of $5, 900 per member, to the payment of twenty three more members of the House than allowed by law.
 DR. A. W. HUDSON, was convicted at St. Louis, of manslaughter in the sec end degree, for procuring an abortion on Ann B. McGill, about year ago, and was sentenced to three years imprison- ment.
 A BOY convict, named Dunn, 16 years of age, as he was being locked up in his cell in the House of Refuge, Randall's Island, N. r., stabbed and killed his keeper, Samuel Calvert, with a shoe- knife. s r.a -3-.5.'
 A DRUNKEN blacksmith named Joseph Nelson, near Sedalia, Mo-, abused his wife till she left him, and when she re- fused to return he shot and killed her, and then shot himself, inficting a dan gerous wound. ~ 4s -.
 MRS. ANNA c. RUTH, charged with being an accessory before the fact in the murder of her husband, Isaac M. Ruth, by Dr. John J. Medlicott, has been dis charged on a writ of habeas corpus by the authorities. .-7... t
 EMIoT, the Communist incendiary, and seven of the murderers of the Rue Haxe, have been convicted and condemned to | death. Many other Communists pro- nounced guilty of similar crimes are sen fenced to transportation.
 A TRAGEDY, most sad in it's details, took place in New York. William Trevert, | German citizen in comfortable circum- stances, accidentally shot his wife with 8 | pistol, killing her instantly. Trevert be- came raving maniac when he saw what | he had done. 5" +'' -%@ TEE proposed constitution for Utah | was unanimously adopted by the Mor- mon voters, and Fuller, the candidate for Congress, was elected without oppo- sltlon. The Gentiles put no ticket in the field, and abstained from voting. A large, number of Mormon women voted.
 A SOUTHERN newspaper says: "Five brothers sleep side by side on little mound right in sight of their mothers little white cottage, that stands down by 3 mill about twenty miles from Appo- mattox Court, house. She pointed them to us while the tears gushed from her eyes. They were her all''
 PRESIDENT BAEz has again lost the town of Savaneta.b It is reported that he was defeated at San Juan by Cabral, who was unable to advance for want of money and ammunition. The people o11ipOt ,fn ToI I,o still have hopes of annexation to the United States, or an American. protec- ,orate. .'.@ ; A SOCIETY, to be known as the tsMis- 'ion for Animals, was organized at meeting of citizens in Boston, based lpon considerations that the public 1ealth, economy, and morals are to arges extent iniurionsly. affected byz our ,, present. modes of treating live stock des- lned for food, clothing, and other uses. Officers of the mission were elected.
 THE particulars oi Gen. Trevino's de- q eat near Zacatecas (Mexico( proves more | disastrous to the revo1utionists than was tt first reported. While the battle was t one thousand men revolted nd joined Rocha, which created panic, q esulting in the rout of the revolution sts and the capture of Trevino's main !, command, with all his material of war. Ar an inquest upon the body of a girl Es n Vermont, the evidence proved con lusively that the girl came to her death E, y eating arsenic to beautify her com | 'lexion. She had been-in the habit of i. ating cloves, pickles, chalk, &ca for the anne purpose, and having seen in lewspaper. that some ladies in the old l ountry ate arsenic to whiten their skin, ! he took some of the poison for that ! purpose, and with fatal results. s-sssl F. MR. GLADSTONE, in the English House (