Connecticut western news., 1872-05-31
Items of General Interest.

Items of General Interest," A&
 THE New York Democratic State Con- vention endorsed the Cincinnati resolu- tiors.
 Horace Greeley has resigned his posi- tion as editor-in- chief of the New York Tribune.
 THE ConstaiomneI says three more French departments will soon be evacu- ated by the Germans.
 A TERRIBLE fire occurred in Brooklyn, N. Y. Fourteen tenement-houses were burned, rendering homeless @ hundred families.
 STOCKS in San Francisco are complete ly demoralized. The break is one of the worst ever known, extending through the entire list.
 | CINCINNATI is said to be the most densely populated city in the United States, having 36, ,O00 people to the square mile, while New York has but 23,000. THE London Times says Germany has expressed her readiness to negotiate with France for hastening the evacuation of the latter's territory by German troops. THE Republican State Convention at 1 Elmira endorsed the administration of Presidant Grant in 8 series of resolu- tons, and elected delegates to Philadel- phia.
 ORIs s. FERRY was reelected for term of six years from March, 1873, by the Connecticut Legislature. The contest was between the successful candidate and Gen. Hawley.
 ENGINEER James Wood ran a special train from Rochester to Syracuse, dis tance of eigAty-one miles in eighty two minutes. This, for the distance, is the fastest time on record.
 THE last expedition to Cocos Island in search of treasure, supposed to have been buried there by pirates, has failed, and fourteen persons from the expedition have returned to San Francisco.
 WoRKMEN are engaged in the City Hall Park, N. Y., surveying the ground for the New Vanderbilt Underground Railroad. Three thousand men have been engaged to begin operations immediately.
 A ROYAL decree has been published at Madrid granting full pardon to the Havana students who were convicted of violating the grave of Gonzales Castanon, and sentenced to the chain gang.
 A SCHOONER which arrived at Copen- hagen from Iceland reports Q series of violent earthquake shocks at Hasvick. Twenty houses were destroyed, and sev- eral persons were injured, but no lives were lost.
 PRESIDENT GRANT sent Congress Q message relating to the hardships of emigrants, and suggesting some amelio- rating action and one also in regard to the continued persecution of the Jews in Roumania.
 A DISPATCH received at Washington from Helena, Montana, dated the 18th, says: "The Fort Benton authorities report that Simmons, Hard, and five others, have been killed by Indians while descending the river"
 ALL the titles of the Marquis of Butte, etc, are hereditary save two, which were bestowed on him by the Pope. in him, are concentrated the dignities of mar quis, three earls, three viscouEts, three barons, and five lords. He was born September 12, 1847, and is consequently twenty-five years.
 IT is illegal in Massachusetts for any passenger car to be lighted by naphtha or by any Illuminating oil or fluid made in part from naphtha, or wholly or in part from coal or petroleum or other substance or material which will ignite at temperature of less than three hun dred degrees Fahrenheit.
 A NEW line of iron steamships from Philadelphia to Liverpool will soon com mence regular trips, and then will be seen the novel spectacle in American waters of the launch of an American iron steamship, built of American materials, owned by American capital, and to be manned by American seamen. The foul steamers of this line are to be named the Pennsylvania, the Ohio, the Indiana. and the Illinois.
 THEY are going to solve maritime war problem by making the British iron clad Hotspur hurl her Titanic bolts ol five hundred weight apiece against the revolving turrets of the iron-clad Glat ton, in order to test the real strength O revolving turrets, the advantages anc disadvantages of the system under fire and other points which can only b. proven by actual experiment.