Connecticut western news., 1872-05-17
Items of General Interest.

A T1cHBoRNE bond of 91O0 is in At lanta, Ga. z
 DH. LIVINGSTONE is now reported to be safe and sound at Zanzibar.
 THERE are but thu ee steamhoats on all the navigable rivers of Mexico.
 THE damage done to vineyards at Los Angeles by the frost is not heavy.
 BUTTER sells in the Boston market from nine cents to $1.25 per pound.
 GREEN Co.,, Mo-, promises 5OO,OOO bushels of apples and peaches this year.
 THE area of public parks at St. Louis is 1, 1,S93.S3 acres, or 2.96 square miles.
 THEY have shark skin tannery at Galveston, which is doing good busi- ness.
 FIVE hundred million postage stamps were issued last week by the United States.
 AN Illinois farmer got $70 from the County Clerk for seven baby wolves found under stump.
 THE Stokes trial will probably proceed now-the court having vacated the order for stay of proceedings.
 THE English farmers are much against their inclinations, compelled to recognize the importance of the agricultural strike.
 Gloves ought to mark the darkest shade in the dress, or else to be of some harmonizing rather than contrasting col | or.
 THERE is great scarcity of hands for | harvesting in California, and 2,5O0 labor CTS are wanted for different Oregon rail roads.
 ENGLAND has a quietly absorbed the island of Sumatra, in the Indian Ocean, by some arrangements with the Dutch owners.
 A PRIVATE letter states that our naval officers on the Japan station have been received by the Japanese officials with many honors.
 THE vomito, generally considered 8 summer visltant at Havana, was com menced there, off and on, all through the past winter.
 STRAKE, Florida, has but one church, in which offciated on successlve Sundays recently a Baptist, minister, 9 preacher of the New Advent, a Methodist, and 8 Catholic bishop.
 Two highwayman robbed the stage from Volcans to Jackson, Amador Coun. ty, California, getting $1O,0OO from Wells Fargo & Go. s Express box and es- capped to the mountains.
 GRAY's elegy in country churchyard contains 991 words, of which 821 are de- rived from the Anglo-Saxon, 125 from the Latin, 15 from the French, seven from the Italian, and 23 from the Greek | MDD1EBoRoUaHi is one of those spots in the North of England which, within few years, has sprung from 40 inhabi- tants to 10000. The minerals recently discovered there are the cause of it's growth. ~&
 NEAR Florence, Ala, the other day, bolt of lightning instantly killed a steer without breaking a bone in it's body. Another steer, yolked with the one killed and standing just by its side, was unhurt
 A GENTLEMAN near Keokuk, Ia., has a colony of 168 hives of bees. He sold last year 4,OO0 pounds of honey, and $700 worth of bees. He cultivated 40 acres with special reference to the wants of the bees.
 THE British mercantile marine con- sists of 37 ,O00 vessels, representing G. 100000 tons. Of these 100000 tons are steamers. Altogether, the English have more ships than all other nations combined.
 ADvIcEs from Zanzibar, brings news of the visitation of the island by terri 'ble hurricane. The town itself was very badly damaged, 150 vessels were sunk or stranded on the coast, and the loss of property estimated at BIO, O,OoO,O0O.
 A NUMBER of planters ln Louisiana are setting out willow posts. as they find that, in almost every case, they grow into ing the most durable posts, and at the fuel.
 A NEGRO in Mississippi the other day climbed a tree to saw of limb upon which swarm of bees were settled. When the limb fell the whole swarm set tied upon the head of the unfortunate man. and stung him so severely that he died in ten minutes
 IN the United States Court in Charles. town, S.C., fifteen Ku-Klux prisoners who pleaded guilty to conspiracy were sentenced to imprisonment for terms ranging from one month to eight years and fines ranging from $10 to $500. This concludes the Ku-Klux trials this term. IN the Supreme Court, Memphis Early Euson, who murdered Edward Lisle at a picnic near the city, about { year since and was sentenced to be hang ed, was granted new trial. Chief-J us tice Nicholson, who delivered the opin ion, decided that the act of the Legisla ture passed last winter repeating the law declaring juror incompetent who hac formed an opinion was unconstitutional One of the jurors in this case had stated that he had formed an opinion based up on newspaper reports, but could render a fair and impartial verdict notwith standing.