Connecticut western news., 1872-06-07
Items of Interest.


 ALL the Pennsylvania Congressmen are candidates for collection.
 THE New York State Fair will be held at Elmira, from September 30 to October 4. The entries close on August 31.
 THE Providence Journal counts up two hundred ballots sure, on the first ballot, for Colfax for the Vice-Presiden- cy.
 THE Governor of Massachusetts has now before him more applications for pardon than at any previous time within five years.
 THE U. s. House Naval Committee have agreed to report bill to allow the widow of Admiral Farragut pension of $2,O00 year.
 UNDER the will of the late Miss Nabby Joy, the sum of $28O, 500 has been appro- priated to Boston public charities, in sums ranging from $200 to sS20,000.
 FoUR thousand dollars conscience mon- ey was received by the United States Treasurer from naturalized citizen, who has gone back to Europe to reside.
 THE Republicans of the Third Con- gressional District of Maine unanimously nominated Hon. J. G. Blaine for Repre- sentative to Congress. This is Mr.. Blaine's sixth nomination.
 THE sheriff at Houghton, Mich., has arrested seven more miners. While the arrests were being made, the sympathetic crowd mingled their misses for the civil officer with cheers for the military.
 THE Maine Democratic State Commit | hoo for Tot, at Bangor, to be held Tuesday, June Is, delegates to the Baltimore Convention.
 MADRID advices say that the Carlist organization in Biscay is completely an initiated, that 4,00O of the insurgents surrendered to the government troops, and that order is now completely restored throughout the province.
 FRANK BARBER, of Chicago, a young man of dissipated habits, while attempt ing to enter the barn of his brother through 8 small window, was caught in such manner as to hang suspended by the neck until he was suffocated.
 IN the Presbyterian General Assembly at Richmond, Va., the resolution intro duced by Colonel Preston, of Virginia, inquiring into the expediency of prepar- ing iturgical service for congregational worship, was rejected by a vote of 165 to 5.
 JAMES QU1G1EY, son of poor laboring man in Buffalo, student at St. Joseph's College, was reported favorably on by the examiners for the cadetship at the disposal of that district A similar se- lection was made last year from the same College.
 THE celebrated tin box case in New Orleans has been withdrawn by Senator J. B. Lewis. who brought it. He sued for the contents of tin box, alleged tc be $20, ,000, which had been deposited in the Louisiana Savings Bank, to be de. livered to him on the condition that he voted as the Governor wished during the last session of the Legislature. When the box was produced in court it was empty.
 FULTON ferry is the big end of one o1 the tunnels that discharge population out of New York. On the other side is the big end of like funnel, which serves 2 like purpose for Brooklyn. Thirty mine million passengers crossed at that point last year. Of course the computation is aggregate, not individual. Four hundred thousand persons, probably, included al whose repeated trips amounted to the imposing number of thirty nine million
 Ar 9 o'clock at night. as Mrs. Carrie Robinson Pierce, the divorced wife O. William H. Robinson, railroad ticke agent in Cincinnati, stepped from { street car in the south east part of New port, Ky, and started to her home, she was twice stabbed by rufian who grasp ed her. The whalebone in her dress averted one blow the second stroke wal serious, but not dangerous. The ap proach of help at the cries of the woman drove the assassin away. The lady say! the assailant was not her former hus band.