Connecticut western news., 1872-05-24
Items of Interest.

ONE planter sold Ill PeterSDurg, Va., 500 bales of cotton.
 CLERaYMEN must take out 0 license under the peculiar license law of South Carolina.
 ANDREW JoHNsoN's claim for income tax paid on his salary as President amounts to $4, ,694.66.
 A. T. STEWART, of New York, says he will build the handsomest theater in the world on the Niblo site.
 A CHURCH in Derby, Conn.,, has had pine pastors within eighteen years. It is not 8 Methodist church.
 THERE has been great and unsual mor- tality throughout the burnt district of Wisconsin during the winter and spring
 PRESIDENT GRANT is expected to be present at the reunion of the Army of the Tennessee in Madison, Wis, July 4.
 THE proposed constitution for West Virginia, makes persons in the employ of railroads ineligible to the State Legis ture.
 IT is rumored in London that several of the Kurile Islands in the North Pa cific are to be leased to the United States.
 A PROMINENT business man in Milwau. kee, Wis, has discovered that he is one of Anneke Jans's heirs, and he wants $3, 100000
 ONE hundred and fifty merino sheep, valued at $15, 1000 were shipped from Nashville, Tenn, via St. Louis, for Sar Francisco.
 SMALLPOX seems to be once more gaining ground in New York city, and the vaccination corps have again been ordered on duty.
 CHICAGO recently shipped 1,930,1 bushels of grain in three days, which is doing pretty we'll for city that was de, stroyed last October.
 THE local Option Liquor bill was lost in the Upper House of the New York Legislature, not receiving the vote of 8 majority of the Senate.
 Two farmers in Michigan quarreled about sheep day or two ago, and one of them stabbed the other with jack. knife, infiicting mortal wound.
 JAMAICA is becoming perfect asylum for American invalids. Every vessel brings numbers to the island not even the prospect of summer in the tropics deterring them.
 THE Washington Chronicle says that 8 resident of New York city applied day or two since for the interest on $2OO. .OOO worth of bonds, on which interest ceased to accumulate on the 1st of December last.
 A DETROIT man had just painted his house black, his doors bright red, and the window-sash a sky-blue. The picket fence is to be red, white and blue, and then he expects to have place that will attract attention.
 GREAT excitement prevails among steamboat men at Milwaukee, Wis. The boats of nearly all the lines have been stopped by the United States Supervising Inspectors, thus making a complete blockade in the freight business.
 THE first sensations in the ball-field were the defeat of the Bostons by the Athletics of Philadelhhia, by a score of 10 to 7; and the defeat of the Baltimore nine by the Mutuals of this city, after playing ten innings, by a score of Il to g.
 MELBOURNE has suffered severely from enormous floods. Four hundred people have been drowned. Added to this fear full loss of life, great destitution is look ed forward to by the citizens, as the growing crops have been almost de- stroyed.
 THE Rev. B. P. Wadham. for the past 22 years priest in Albany diocese, was consecrated Bishop of Ogdensburg at the Roman Catholic Cathedral, Albany. by Archbishop McCloskey of N CIV York, assisted by several other bishops from various sections of the country.
 A DISPATCH from Holden,p Mo-, says "There is the best assurance for saving that, if the Sheriff Of Cass County fails to perform his duty, the United States authorities will arrest the assassins oi Stephenson, Cline, and Dubrol, in the face of Gov. Browns proclamation.
 ADv1cEs from Zanzibar have been re- ceived. This island had been visited by terrible hurricane. One hundred and fifty vessels of all classes were sunk or stranded on the cost. The town oi Zanzibar was very badly damaged, and the losses was estimated at $10,00O, 900.
 THE St. Paul (Minn.) Press says that notwithstanding the fact that the stream of immigration has commenced pouring into the State at an earlier date than was ever before known, the demand for skilled labor is not more than half sup. piled, and many are complaining of thei1 inability to secure help when it is most urgently needed. -..
 A LETTER from MT. Wendell Philips was read at the meeting of the Reform League in New York, in which the elo, quent agitator expressed prophetically that the coming campaign would be the last in which the Democratic and Repub- Iican parties, as such, would engage. Whichever party succeeds" he says, "both die in the effort"
 THE experiment of causing the engines to play upon disorderly mob in order to disperse it was not very successful when tried last week in 8 town of South Russia. The people resented the insult by attacking the police and demolishine the fire station. The troops were then called out and were stoned, whereupon some of the citizens were shot and the rest decamped.
 TIMBER.-Mr. Curtis in the Farmers Club said, I lately learned by accident g thing I would have given $1OO to have known last Summer, namely, that when