Connecticut western news., 1872-03-22
Items of Interest.

during the performance.
 JOHN CH1NAMAN is now the universal domestic servant in San Francisco.
 RUSSIA IS to have fleet of twenty-five war vessels in the Black Sea next Isum- mer. .,--- .-ar. -, - :ea a 'ss
 THE average depth of the Atlantic ocean is miles; that of the Pacific, 4 miles:
 THREE hundred million letters yearly pass through the post-offices of the world.
 THE aggregate circulation of all the Boston daily papers is said to be about 16O,OOO.
 CAPE Cop is the most prolific cran berry producing region in the whole United States.
 MR. JAMES GoU1D, of Albany, claims to have made the first railroad cars in this country, at Albany in 1881.
 THE last twelve months have beer terribly disastrous to life and shipping upon the ocean, all over the world. FUEL manufactured from peatiis justly engaging considerable attention, anc must further economize at points distant from coal mines.
 BALTIMORE has four thousand persons employed in several extensive shoe man. ufactories, and their sales amount an. nually to $6, ,000,o0
 ALTHOUGH the fourth half milliard ot indemnity has just been paid there re. mains in the French treasury balance of 45O, ,000, ,OOO francs.
 IN the Wisconsin Assembly, consti. tutional amendments was passed re strict. ing municipal indebtedness to five per cent. of assessed valuation.
 h, is understood in England that the decision of the Emperor William, arbi. trator in the San Juan difficulty, will be unfavorable to Great Britain.
 THE prohibitionists of Michigan have called State Convention to nominate candidates for State officers, to be held in Lansing on Wednesday, June 12.
 A BILL passed the Wisconsin Senate prohibiting the purchase or receipt o1 grain by any other weight or measure than at the standard provided by law.
 PRINCE FREDERIC CHARLES of Prussia, while in Rome recently, is said to have declared that Germany would side with Italy in the event of an attack by France.
 ALEXANDER Mos1EY, editor of the Richmond Wbig, and James c. South hall, editor of the Enquirer, were arrest ed to prevent an anticipated hostile meet ing.
 A MAN in Newburg, N. O., cut his hand in opening box of sardines the other day, and the result was that his hend and arm began to swell and he finally died.
 MARY WoUNER, of York, Penn, is a little girl who preserved 8 railroad train from destruction the other day by swing ing her apron for the engineer to stop after she had discovered broken rail.
 REV. DR. l.. D. HUSTON, late of Balti- more, has published another card pro- testing his guiltlessness He says: ssBy every form of oath or imprecation that IS solemn and awful. I again declare that the girls statement is false. e''
 A MAN in Illinois has patented an iron shing1e roof. The shingles are about six by thirteen inches, lap each other so as to insure waterproof, and are fast ened by headless nails. The patent is said to beless expensive than slate.
 REGENT advices from Mexico state that Mazatlan is still held by the rebels. The Federal force sent from Colima, via San Bias, having been unable to cooperate with that of Gen. Pesquiera from Sonora. was compelled to retreat again to San Bias.
 A STRANGE murder is reported from Buffalo. A woman was found beaten to death in her room, her husband lying drunk in the hallway. She had evil dently been dead some time. The scene of the tragedy is but one square from the police headquarters.
 AwooD-CHoPPER, named Head, at work near Poughkeepsie, built fire under an overhanging rock, and, while eating his dinner, the heat thawed the frost around the powder and it fell on the man, breaking both legs and one arm, and burning his body in 8 terrible man. her. -
 MR. JOHN BRIGHT has written letter to the Anti-Income Tax Association in London Tn favor of reduction of the government expenditures He advises the withholding of confidence from government which cannot govern with put taking seventy millions annually from the nations industry.
 ONE Henry Joyce, of Detroit, recently became convinced that he was @ great and very proftless bother to his wife, md accordingly drew up and signed paper which reads: ssThis is too Agre hat if mi wife page me 10 dolrs won't Never bother Her amy nor as treu as I iv if doc she kan sind the pleese after ne."
 A wEL1-DREssED and lady-Eke individ- 1al, who was detected in stealing pair 'f silk hose in a Boston store, burst into | ears when approached by one of the oroprietors, and offered him twenty lollars. Magnanimously, after quietly her, he charged her only the 'egular price of the hose, and handed pack the change. Too late he discovered | hat the $20 bill was counterfeit.