Connecticut western news., 1872-01-19
Items of Interest.

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 A SHOOK of earthquake is reported at Sheffield, Eng.
 MORE communists will shortly be exc. cuted in France.
 TIE famine in Persia continues, and the suffering is undiminished.
 GENERAL Andrew Porter, formerly of the United States, died at Paris.
 CHICAGO is already boosting of the su- perior accommodations of her hotels.
 CALIFORNIA farmers are putting in twenty per cent. more grain than last year.
 Mir. Rutan, Republican, was elected Speaker of the Pennsylvania Senate.
 THE official canvass of the late election in Minnesota shows Austin's majority to be 15,741.
 The execution of the murderers of Gems. Lecompte and Thomas will soon take place.
 THE Republican Convention at Con- cord, N. H., nominated the Hon. E. A. Shaw for Governor. THE California Legislature has ap- pointed a committee to investigate the State Capitol frauds. FIVE iron-clads now fitting out at the Navy ward at League Island are sup posed to be for Cuba. A BILL will soon be introduced in Con- gress for an act enabling Colorado to come into the Union.
 THE ship Spirit of the Dawn was 70 n,7- five of the crew were saved.
 IN the Pennsylvania State Legislature William, Ellicott, of Philadelphia, was elected Speaker of the House.
 KRUGER and Miss Shepherd, the sur- vivors of the Wickenburg stage massacre; have arrived at Los Angeles, Cal.
 Gov. Hoffman has commutea the sen- tence of James D. Kelly, of Buffalo, from hanging to imprisonment for life.
 THE entire State debt in New York is less than one-third that of the City of New York, being only 1928, 1892, TOP.
 EIGHT thousand persons died in Lon don from smallpox last year. The average for thirty-one years preceding was 600.
 A DISPATCH from Constantinople an- nounces that four Greek brigs have been wrecked in the Black Sea, and that all on board perished.
 THE first trial of hostage for the murder of German soldier in France, the perpetrator of the crime not having been given up, has commenced.
 UNITED States Senator D. D. Pratt, of Indiana, one of the members of the Custom House Retrenchment Commit tee was robbed of $500 in Broadway omnibus.
 THE number of marine disasters on the Florida coast since 1887 is official ly estimated at $50 vessels, valued at $30, ,000, ,000; averaging about thirty yes sels annually.
 THE Connecticut Lat or Reform Con- vention at Bridgeport nominated A. R. Harrison for Governor, and adopted platform similar to that of the national convention held at St Louis in 1870.
 THE first newspaper in America was published in Boston, on September 25, 1890. Only one copy of it is known to be in existence, and this is deposited in the State paper office of the British gov ernment.
 Gov. GEARY's message to the Legisla- ture represents the total debt at nearly $29, 100000. Deducting sinking fund and cash in the treasury, the balance unprovided for is $18,0OO,OO0. The amount paid off during the last five years averages $1,744,o78.67 yearly.-Penn. Pdper.
 CONTRADICTORY reports have been re- ceived in London with regard to the ar rest of French citizens by the Germans in France. It is said that about hun dred persons have been taken and held as hostages, and that if the actual offend CTS are not forthcoming the hostages will be tried by eourt-martial in their place.
 THE Osprey of Boston, has been clear ly traced to Australia in 1854. It is not yet ascertained whether she rescued any passengers from the Belle. But the Os- prey herself was lost on her return from Australia, with seventy or eighty passen- gers on board. Some days must elapse before the counsel receives an official reply to their inquiries.