Connecticut western news., 1872-04-19
Items of Interest.


 five million gallons.
 MANY young men are removing from Alabama to Texas.
 SINCE the Illinois Legislature con- vened, six of its members have died.
 FoUR-F1FTHs of the 10000 school teachers in Massachusetts are women.
 THERE are 2,OOO rag-pickers in New York streets, some of whom are well off.
 A MARRIED woman's note, according to the ruling of the courts, has no legal force.
 THE U. $: public debt has been re- duced $15, 100000 during the present month. .....-.
 THERE is woman in Washington Territory who shot and killed eight In 6ians with her own hand.
 JOHN McKENNA has been elected by the Albany printers, their representative in the National Convention.
 DURING the past four years the Erie Railway has brought Az, 900, ,O0O, 900 gal Ions of milk to New York City.
 GooD FRIDAY is a legal holiday in Pennsylvania. but the Legislature of that State held session on that day. Bur for diseases, wars and famines, there would not be standing room for our people on this continent by the year 5000.
 IN the beautiful climate of Oak Lake, Minn., little child recently had both hands frozen while it was asleep in it's cradle.
 TRAVELLERS say that Russia is now more like an immense camp than na- ton that is simply considered on peace footing. THE Toronto Globe is very confident that Riel and Lepine were bribed with Dominion Government money to leave Manitoba.
 PRESIDENT THEIRS has abandoned his project to transfer the Government to Paris. He will, however, hold his re- captions there.
 IT is positively announced that nego- tiations for the complete evacuation of French territory by the German troops are about to begin.
 1 THREE thousand seven hundred and thirty-two homeless persons were fur nished lodgings by the police of New York in one week.
 IN Jersey City mixed Jury, composed of six negroes and six white men, was empanelled to try case wherein negro sued white man for wages. .[. @.
 THE new members of the Spanish Cortes are classified thus: Minister. ialists, 229; coalitionists, 137; doubt. fuls, IS. A few other returns have yet to come in. .. ...
 THE French government has just beer
 warned that several German officers have
 been for some time back busily engaged
 in taking plans of the fortresses an6
 strategical routes in Savoy and Francht
 Comte.
 A MAN named Grubb, with his wife
 sister and three small children, attempt ed to ford Lick Greek, near Tadonia 7 Ill. The water being very high, the
 wagon box foated off the three childrer
 were drowned.
 THE farmers of the Saguenay regior below Quebec, Canada, are in great dis
 tress, and relief by loan of $4O, ,00( otherwise they will be compelled to leave
 bueIT 1hIulS ddu CO1u0 bO Luo OCbGGS.
 THE mortal remains of Aaron Burr lie in the graveyard at Princeton, N. J.
 where, few years ago, monument O. marble was erected by stealth at night by whom, it was unknown, but other un
 known persons have mutilated the shaft INFORMATION of a shocking accident il Cornwall, England has just been re ceived. An explosion occurred in safe ty-fuse manufactory. where number O females were employed, causing los
 of life. Seven women were killed ant , one is missing. aa r. s-.. l ACCORDING to Gibbon, the population ) of ancient Rome, in the height of it magnifcence. was 1,20O, GOO; the popu : lation of Pekin is supposed to be abou l 2,000, ,000; that of London is over 5000, 2 GOO, one-twelfth of the population of tn 3 whole United States.
 t THE Mexican revolutionists still hol Saltille, Monterey, Camargo, Mier, GueI ] rero, Nuevo Laredo, and iedras Ne
 gras. They are endeayoring to concen 7 trate their forces, now estimated at 12 n 900 men, and will probably try the fol : tune of war once more. e AN explosion occurred in a coal min 6 at Atherton near Bolton, England, b e which twenty eight men were killed out ! right Eleven were rescued, but the e are fearfully burned, and nearly all wi h probably dle. There is great exciteme1 y in the vicinity of the mine. @ j. DOCTOR MARVIN aRd Samuel Boyd, ( c Omaha, Neb., have been found guilty ( U causing the death of Miss Oliver, (
 Wood River, Nebraska, by producip ,e an abortion. The former was sentence l. to three and half years and the latte d to six months imprisonment in the pen d tentaary. . n A HoTE1-cLERK in Pittsburg, Penn 'e has manifested enterprise, but unhapp, d ly turned 1t into wrong directions. B d has just married two wives, set up in d boarding-house with the second, victin t. ized sundry shop-keepers, not to mel le ton his friends, and wound up1 wit se eloping with one of his sisters-in-law. oi THE destruction of cattle by u o drought in Western Texas seems to ha, D, demoralized the farm laborers of tn o section. They refuse to work on u l- farms, but are found roaming over u D, country in squads, searching for carca ln ses to skin. It is said that the stench y, so great in the vicinity of watering plac lg that but few can stand it, and fear exis pr that sickness will follow. sr-.1-. 7 lg LARGE OYSTERS. friend who we pc comed Thackery to America in 1855