Connecticut western news., 1872-02-23
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 Gov. REED, of Florida, has been i'm peached.
 IN the Big Cottonwood mining district a snow-slide killed three men. -. THE 2,OOO troops asked for by Captain General Valmaseda, have sailed from Cadiz to Cuba.
 THE famous Mariposa estate was sold for $500, 900, to the Mariposa Land and Mining Company.
 MIR. MEYER has been appointed Con- tsul for the North German Confederation at Philadelphia.
 THRTY-Two citizens of Los Angeles, indicted for murder in the anti Chinese riots, have pleaded not guilty.
 JEFFREY CATr1Na, of Chicago, the murderer of James Townsend, has been sentenced tosimprisonment for life. .-
 GEORGE W. WAnkER, was sentenced at Evansville, Ind, to fourteen years i'm prisonment for attempting rape last Fall. -'@
 THE bill to pay the Missouri State bonds in currency passed the. Assembly over the Governors veto by vote of "A to 45.
 IT is reported from Hayti that an in- surrection is expected to break out in that thrifty country as soon as the coffee is harvested,
 THE action of the Supreme Court, in granting 8 new trial to Mrs. Fair, is severely commented on by the Press and Bar of California.
 IT has been judicially decided in Eng land, that married woman living apart from her husband is entitled to vote at the municipal elections.
 A child at Savannah received cut under the chin in & fall, which continued to bleed in spite of every remedy, caus- ing it's death through exhaustion in ten days. v..s P GEN. ANDERsoN's remains were brought to New York. They were de- posted in receiving-tomb until the vault at West Point was ready to receive them.
 l.. M. HILLS, prominent and wealthy citizen of Amherst, Mass, and the larg. est manufacturer of palm-leaf hats in the country, died in that city, aged sixty. nine. -......s E~s @''
 JOHN A. HANSON, convicted of forging the name of his father-in-law, John c. Clarke, to, a $3, 900 check, was sentenced at Boston to. six. years in the State Prison. .., ,...... ~ .-
 ALFRED DANA, of Alabama, @ Metho. dist, after theological controversy with his wife, who is Catholic, beat her SC severely with brick, that her life is de kspaired of. -s.-- THE two Grafton, Mass, bank-rob bers who were found guilty, were sen. tenced, Charles Gleason to fourteen years, and Daniel Dockerty to thirteen years in State prison.
 THE body of a young man named Enge was found in one, of the tar stills of the Eagle Oil Works, in Cleveland. It is believed that he entered the still to clear the tube, and was sufocated by the gas. l ADv1oEs from the Cape of Good Hope represent that the colony is crowded with strangers that murders and robber ies are of daily occurrence and that the residents, whose patience was exhausted have taken the law into their own hands and are executing summary justice or offenders.
 THE troops who were sent after tn, Apaches who captured two stages nea, Tuscon, Arizona, and murdered tn. drivers and passengers, found the mail cut up and destroyed. The troops buried the dead bodies of those who were mur dered. They were unable to overtakt the savages. l
 THE man Slough who, in a fit of rage caused by drink and jealousy, brutally stabbed and killed his wife at Richmond Ky, was lynched. A number of masked men went to the jail, overpowered tn, Sheriff, took the keys from Jim, anG marched out the murderer to tree upon which they hanged him.
 THE Presse, of Vienna, Austria, in al article upon the claims of America be fore the arbitrators at Geneva, say England has probably learned that tn opinion of the Board will be unfavor able to the conduct of that nation dur ing the civil war in America, and fear the consequences of her course toward the United States.
 THE New Orleans journals state tha in that city there are six establishments with an aggregate capital of $1, ,500,00C engaged in the manufacture of oil an, oil cake from cotton seed-the produe being one hundred thousand tons pc annum. The oil is extensively used i the manufacture of soap, and the oil cak is shipped to the plantation for feedin cattle.