Litchfield enquirer., 1870-07-21
News of the Week.
FOREIGN. FRANCE DECLARES WAR ON PRUs.
FOREIGN,

STA.
 Frdnce.-The Corps Legislatif declared war on Prussia on Friday last. No battles had taken place at last accounts.
 The Empress is said to have used her in tiuence in favor of war. The King of Prussia had an enthusiastic reception on his return to Berlin.
 Austria and Spain will remain neutral during the contest.
 There are indications of trouble between France and England.
 It is reported that Russia has pronounc. ed in favor of Prussia
 Scarce any rain has fallen in France for eleven weeks.
 G1eM B,itain.-The Thames Embank. ment has been formally opened with im. posing ceremonies.
 The crop reports are more favorable.
 Spain.-A proposition is under discussion Ill Madrid to confer royal attributes on Re gent Serrano for three years
 Naty.-The dogma of Infallibility has been adopted by large majority, and was to be promulgated oD the 24th inst.
 Father Gavazzi is to attend the Evangel- ical council in New York.
 Canaoid.-A tornado passed over Canada, leveling everything in it's track.
 In the Red River country, Riel is said to be held prisoner by his own men.
 Merico.-The Mexican fillibustering steamer Forward, has been captured and destroyed by the boats of the United States steamer Mohican, while under the guns of Mexican battery, an ensign of the Moh can and one seamen being killed. Jaurez declines re- election as President of Mexico.
 The Vicery of Egypt has given 10000 Turkish pounds to the victims of the late fire at Constantinople.
 DOMESTIC.
 A Pennsylvania farmer, 60 years of age. murdered his wife, fired his dwelling, and then hanged himself, last week.
 The Orangemen's celebration of the Bat tie of the Boyne, at New York, was charac- terized by desperat riot, in which five were killed and number wounded.
 Bonds of the value to $4,O0O have been stolen from Boston banker.
 Rear Admiral Dahlgren died at Washing ton on the 12th, of heart disease.
 Three thousand dollars were stolen from a woman in law N. Y. office last week
 Two persons were killed and many wounded by an accident on the Richmond and Fredericksburg Railroad.
 Sunday was the hottest day of many years The Thermometer run to 1OOo i'm New York and to 1O3o in PhiIadelphia. There were fifteen cases of sun. stroke in Baltimore.
 Two negroes were killed in an affray be. tween whites and blacks on 6 Mississippi steamer.
 Nine persons were killed and several in. jured by the explosion of steamboat boil. CT on the Mississippi River.
 The State of Maryland is sueing the | RolfinoOro and Ol,ia Do; ro, SOQn
 Two murders were committed in Boston on Sunday.
 A serious conflict of authority has arisen in North Carolina between the militia and judiciary.
 The Australian steamship line from Sam Francisco will begin operations immediate. ly.
 Another freman's fight has occurred in Philadelphia.
 Con. Benj. F. Potts has been confirmed as Governor of Montana. One man was killed and three badly in jured by collision on the Northern Rail road of New Hampshire.
 Two Chinamen have been arrested in SanFrancisco for counterfeiting. $37, ,OO0 in spurious notes being found in their possess ion.
 Ex-Senator Frederick T. Frelinghuyscn nhS OoeA dppOluLeu MlulSCer IO EuBlanu, vice Motley, recalled
 Two women have been burned to death at Detroit.
 A tornado passed over Maine, Thursday, doing immense damage.
 The crops in Alabama and Arkansas will be greatly above the average.
 A fire at Lansingburgh, N. Y., destroyed 75 horses.
 Five hundred coolies have arrived at Chattanooga.
 The contemplated strike in the Pennsyl- vania coal mines on the Eight-Hour ques- tion is failure.
 A lawsuit for SIC, 900 was decided again nst Brigham Young, in Salt lake City.
 A vessel just arrived at Boston picked up a boat at sea containing eight men in Q starving condition.
 Fifteen cases of sunstroke occurred at Baltimore.
 Three persons have been killed on the New Jersey Railroad.
 A serious riot occurred in New York, last week upon the celebration of the battle of Boyne by the Orangemen. The Catholic Irish attacked the procession, killed five and wounded hundred or more. Peace was only preserved at the funeral of the lo~x