Connecticut western news., 1872-03-29
Items of Interest.

bushels of four day.
 ST. LOUIS claims an increase of 10000 in population since the last census.
 AN Illinois farmer has just finished his husking. He had only 450, 1000 bushels of corn.
 THE total sum contributed by England towards the Chicago. relief fund was
 THURSDAY, April 4th, Fast Day in Massachusetts, by the Governors ap- pointment. aa@.
 THE coal beds of Missouri are said to cover an area 2,700 square miles, mostly in the northwest.
 DURING 1871 there were seventy-six horses in this country that trotted their mile in 2.30 or less.
 THE Wisconsin Assembly have passed bill requiring scholars and teachers of public schools to be vaccinated. g
 A TWO legged being at Knox College, Illinois, covered a dog with turpentine and set fire to him few days ago.
 A PHILADELPHIA ward official is under arrest for selling the official record of the election in 1871 for waste paper.
 THE Grand Duke Alexis goes to Rio de Janerio direct from Havana, and thence to China via the Cape of Good Hope.
 A YOUNG man in Lancaster, Penn. has been fined for uttering two oaths, the penalty being sixty-seven cents for each.
 THE population of Montreal proper; according to the census recently taken by order of the corporation, is 117, ,7S4.
 THE sentence of death on Domingo Giral, 8 member of the Cuban Chamber, has been commuted to imprisonment | for life. -.1.. ...r @
 ALLEN W. Thurman, son of Senator Thurman, of Ohio, lost his left hand by an accident with patent corn husker, a few days ago.
 THE Waterloo Cup, won last year by Lord Morgan's famous hound Master Mo Grath, was won this year by MT. Brgg's Bed of Stone. =. | CAPTAIN BENNAM and four sailors of the schooner Minnie Bell, were drowned while attempting to land freight at Point Sal, California.
 Two of the Paris communists were con- victed of incendiarism. One was sen- fenced to deabh, and the other to impris- onment for life. .a.'.
 THE Federal Council of Switzerland has sent secret agents to watch the move ments of Italian revolutionists on the Piedmontese frontier.
 THE revolutionists in Mexico have sus- tained defeat at several places. It is re- ported that Diaz is not dead, but has quilted the country in disgust.
 A MOVEMENT is on foot for all work men in France to labor one hour extra and devote the proceeds to iberating the territory from the Germans.
 THE French Assembly rejected pro- posal to build Q temple to Jesus Christ as testimony to belief in God, neces- sary for the national regeneration.
 SEVERAL cases of cholera have occurred among the forces of Gen. Bourchires, now on their return from victorious campaign against the Looshias in India.
 A WISE writer in Washington paper declared that every imposter, tiff he be only shrewd enough" can dupe the New York public, which nobody can deny. ..f. ., -s, . -r,ssr
 A HORRIBLE trunk mystery has turned up at Wheeling, West Va. By the acci- dental breaking of box at the railroad depot Q mutilated human body was dis closed.
 THE Pottsville Miners Journal esti- mates the total product of bituminous coal in Pennsylvania in 1871 at 8, 456, ,2OG tons., The anthracite product was IT,. 695, 501 tons.
 So fatal has mining become in the coal districts of England, that one per- son in every three who are engaged in it is said to die annually. This is g fearful percentage.
 IT is reported in Paris that the French government has demanded of the Amer ican government instruction relative te the French arms affair but the repor is not we'll founded. " f EMANUEL SHAFFNER, of West Hanover Penn., has been convicted of the murde. of his first and second wives, and Joh1 Sherlock, by poisoning. A motion vii : be made for new trial. ANDREW J. CARNEY, it is said, is abou F to institute legal proceedings agains 3 William M. Tweed for. the recovery o $2o,O 900 for .frescoing, clustering, an, . beautitying the Metropolitan Hotel. 2 Our of forty eight National banks il Boston nineteen are shown to be def 1 clent Tn their reserves by their reports o ! February 27 last. Of the fifty. one Ne,
 York banks twentyfour are deficient. 2 A FARM is advertised for sale in Farm = ington, Ct., for no portion of which aD
 deed was ever given, it having remaine' , in the same family for 232 years. eve :. since the original purchase from the In
 dians.
 '- IT is stated that the earnings of tn
 united railway companies of New Jersey . for the year 1871, were three million
 above expenditures, sum sufficient pay interest upon the bonds and div
 dend of ten per cent. to the stock :. holders. -4- ~. a# T THE Erie President hauled down hi 6 flag, with very little show of fight an the war is over. Jay Gould rendered hi <. resignation. General Dix, the new Pre-!
 ident, and the newly elected board z directors are now complete masters of th . field.
 / THE village of Greenbusb, near A :, bany, wasthe scene of a terrible tragedy 7, Samuel Fargue, a dissipated fellow, sht Nc his wife dead, attempted to shoot h
 daughter, and then committed suici6 IT by hacking his throat with rusty ol a- knife. !, PRESIDENT BArz is again powerful q San Domingo. He has retaken tv st towns and executed the revolution,st IS numbering seventeen. Baez has no a- 500 men, and intends to attack Cabra T, who has 2,000 men but no funds nor an o unition.
 THE payment of two millards of th h war indemnity, together with the intere' Ia to date, on the remaining three millard 70 70 has just been completed at Strasbours ,ae a This gives France entire control of si ,t departments, in which she is allowed { ~ maintain as large military force as st