Connecticut western news., 1873-02-21
Items of Interest.

All the cavalry horses at Camp Doug lass are down with the horse disease.
 Mice among the matches produced a fire that destroyed house in Belle Plain, H., lately.
 There are at the present time 204 ves- sels engaged in the whaling business hailing from American ports.
 The $2, 500 required in Halifax, N. S., to back Brown against Sadlier, the Eng fish sculler, have been subscribed.
 Arizona Territory is not only free from debt, but has a balance of cash in the treasury amounting to $20,O0O.
 A seven-foot kangaroo in Australia had battle with three men, three hor- ses, and four dogs, and whipped them all.
 Seven thousand four hundred and ninety-seven Chinese coolies were i'm ported into Havana during the past year.
 Men from the scene of the fight with the Modocs say that the squaws took part in the battle. One soldier was killed by squaw.
 A Hartford paper says "the dull quality of the gas enables the gas com pany to declare a brilliant dividend of twenty-five per cent"
 A true bill has been found against Robert Bowles, in the Central Criminal Court London, and his trial is ex- pected at an early day. ..r.. e.@
 A dispatch from Bordeaux says a ves- sel, supposed to be British, went ashore on the coast near that city, and all on board are probably lost.
 A Massachusetts undertaken, with the aid of policeman, waylaid funeral procession, and stopped it until his bill for the coffin was settled.
 Iowa farmers have discovered that by filling their dressed geese with water and allowing them to freeze an increase of weight can be obtained.
 The Cortes' committee on the aboli- tion of slavery in Porto Rico has declar- ed in favor of granting owners an aver age indemnity of $250 per slave.
 Senator Alcorn, of Mississippi, is now living with his third wife, and twenty-one children can exclaim "My father is Senator from Mississippi"
 The bellies of the Anglo-Saxons mads no changes in style for three hundred years, while the men of that period were continually changing the fashion.
 The Balances in the U. s. Treasury Currency, $3, 244, ,465; coin, $64, 436, 957, including $24, 747, ,000in soin certificates; special deposit of legal tenders, ESQ., 080,000. n... ..
 The price of coal has again risen ill England, causing the suspension of work at many of the iron furnaces, and depressing the market for English Rail- road Securities.
 The bill abolishing the franking privilege after the 1st of July next, with. the Senate amendments, was passed by the U. s. House of Representatives by the extraordinary vote of 143 to 40.
 A sweet little boy only eight years old-bless his little heart-walked into the scene of teachers examination at Oswego, last week, and ,bawled out = Annie, your feller is down to the house"
 An English newspaper, speaking of the large amount of coal imported from the United States, thinks it probable that system of iron steam colliers will carry United States coal to all parts of the world.
 A bill has passed the Indiana Legis- lature providing that transient visitors from other States not be granted di- vorces unless the alleged cause of con- plaint was @ legal ground for divorce ill the State where it occurred.
 John Hunt, at Cairo, H., placed the butt of his rife on the ground, with the muzzle leaning against his breast, when his powder-horn fell on the ham, mer in such manner as to discharge the weapon, killing him instantly. Some questions very naturally sug- gest themselves to an inquiring mind. An amateur farmer wonders "why, on all this fair earth, the ground is spread bottom side up, so that it must be turn ed over with plough before craps can be raised"
 MT. Charles Town Fowler, London reporter who died lately, had given his attention during thirty years singly to the writings of fires. He pursued his peculiar line of reporting with so much earnestness that, it is said, he literally lived upon fire engine.
 Captain Jack, the Modocs chief, pre- serves regular military discipline, and drills his men every day with the assls- tance of persons we'll acquainted with military tactics and ambushing, and who are supposed to be renegade whites who have become their allies.
 The Mayor of Detroit says that The pulled down the smallpox flag from 0 tenement owned by him (" to conserve the public peace," explaining that boys congregated around it and "dared " each other to scale the fence and ap- proach the house on which the flag was displayed. t.. ....
 A New Orleans woman, who was told by a "Voudou priestess " that her daughter, recently buried, would revive on the third day, wsnt to the tomb at the time designated, had the coffin opened, shrieked, and clasped her living, frantic child in her arms, realizing that she had come just in time. a-
 The Carlist insurrection in Spain is assuming formidable proportions. The Paris Union says their lines extend through the Northern provinces oi Spain from Cape Creux to Corunna, and that they are fourishing in numbers arms, and resources. Mail communl cations haee ceased between Spain ano Paris for whole week.
 Two minutes suffice for Swedish execution with the new instrument jus adopted. The victim is made to stand up inside hollow cone, his head pro truding from an opening at the apex another cone is placed over his head which brings curved knife against hi neck, and the executioner slices hi head off by single movement.
 Japan has recently taken two impor tant progressive steps, which indicat that the recent report of aconservativ reaction among the rulers of that En pire is untrue. The first of these step is the decision to create m electiv Parliament of two Houses, and number ing 600 members, by which step, for tn first time in the history of Japan, tn ,annrala wi III haxrn zroica in 1a1lhlic atfairs