Connecticut western news., 1872-06-14
Items of General Interest.
MUsKETs were invented in 1414.

MUsKETS were invented In l4l4.
 TIE origin of voting by ballot is traced tO the Grecians.
 SIXTY divorce suits are pending in the courts at Nashville, Tenn.
 THE recent rains have saved the wheat crop in Middle Tennessee.
 OVER 5000 persons are now engaged in the strikes in New York.
 ENGLAND, it is understood, withdraws from the Treaty compact.
 THE largest metal statue in the world, Is situated near the city of Aroma in Italy.
 No less than 7,2O7 treaties of peace have been signed within the last 200 years.
 RESPECT to age and kindness to chil- dren, are among the tests of an amiable disposition.
 THE spotted fever is prevailing with unwonted severity in some portions of Pennsylvania.
 THE first eclipse of the moon on record was observed by the Chaldeans at Baby lon, 721 B. c. THE Democratic Convention in Penn ] sylvania, nominated Ex-Senator Bucka- lew for Governor. served throughout the United States. although in many places it rained se- verely.
 THE trial of Chateau, for setting fire to the Tuileries, terminated at Paris with verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to be shot.
 THE Free Trade meeting in New York, at which Wm. Cullen Bryant presided, adopted resolutions in favor of still another Presidential movement. 1
 SEVEN of the Sophomore class at Cor nell University have been indefinitely suspended for reprehensible conduct at the Junior exhibition in April last"
 THE new ocean cable will be landed at Rockaway, l.. I. It will then continue I by land to Hunters Point, crossing the East River at the foot of Liberty Street.
 TIE United States Agricultural Socie- ty has organized by the election of Will liam G.. Beckwith, of Mich. for Presi- dent, with Vice-Presi dent from each State. l
 THE Presidential campaign opened by a Greeley aud Brown mass meeting in New York, at which speeches were made by Gen. Cochrone, Senator Tipton, Doolittle of Wisconsin,, Gen. Fitzpatrick and others.
 A PASSENGER train en route from Basic, Switzerland, to Mayence, Hesse Darm- stadt, came in collision with another passenger train which was going south. Nine persons were killed and large num- Der injured.
 THE utter folly of poisoning pie for the extermination of rats, and then feeding it out to the family, is illustrated in the case of the sexton of the Brom6eld St.. Church in Boston, who died from the effect O. an experiment of this kind.
 IN California new use has been found
 for the jules or reed-ike vegetation
 which grows on the swamp lands. It is said to yield from 50 to 60 per cent, of , paper pulp, equal to that obtained from
 cotton.
 MINER K. KELLOGG, the artist, was di- vorced from his wife, Celia Logan Kel logg, in Washington. She is to have , the custody of their only child. The pc tltion charges abandonment of the hus-
 band by the wife more than a year ago l The case is one of incompatibility.
 THE boiler of the tug Epsilon ex. ploded in the East River, at New York, as she was towing a vessel out of the dock. The tug immediately sank, carry l ing down with her several of the crew Six lives were lost, and many persons wounded, some slightly, some seriously A REPORT is current at Puerto Principe that the Spanish troops, during the en gagement with Argramonte's band killed twenty-two men and captured two officers. The same Spanish force also defeated a body of insurgents wh0 were on their way to join the insurgent Pres
 ident by way of the Spanish coast. IT IS now said that MT. Greeley state, he is in the hands of his friends So fla as his personal feelings are concerned 2 he says he would rather get out of tn '. way. but that having accepted nomina . ton rendered him by his friends, he feel z that he should listen to their wishes, 1 they should insist upon his remaining = in the field, whatever action may be takel :, by other conventions.
 7 Miss ELIZABETH PATERSON institutes 8 suit against the proprietors of tn
 United States Hotel, in Louisville, Ky. 'l for $50, ,OOO, for islander. The porter c the hotel circulated 0 report concernin B her, and the proprietors refused to allo' l her to remain in the house. She wa T also discharged from lucrative positio g on account of the report.
 !, THE insurgents in Cuba are growth
 bolder. They fired lately into Span ' ish gunboat entering the Bay of Baynes severely wounding the captain, pilot an several of the crew. The dons hay ', captured, and executed. the insurgen l General Moreno, his two sons. and fou
 of his officers. A wide spread conspirac sr against the Spaniards has been discoy l. cred among the prisoners confined g 'e Cascorro and Guaimoro.
 et THE Southwestern part of Missou1 10 has been visited by terrible tornado -e Several farms, with their homes, barn. 5. orchards, and fences, were completel y destroyed, and besides two person h killed twelve were wounded, some ( 1. them it is feared fatally. Added to thi 'e there was heavy fall of rain at Veron It in the same state. Immense damae ie was done and three persons drowned e. the flood which the rain produced.
 Cost of Homestead. of As frequent inquiries are made of tt