Litchfield enquirer., 1870-06-30
News of the Week.
FOREIGN,

FOREIGN.
 Gredt Britain. strikes hud r;ots have occurred in Cork.
 The House of Commons refuse to pro. vide for purely secular education.
 Seventeen deaths have resulted from the accident on the Great Western Railway. Another collision has occurred near New. castle, several persons being injured but none killed.
 The Earl of Clarendon is dead.
 France. e.-The government journals claim that the reports of the Emperor's ill health are exaggerated.
 The request of the Orleans princes to be allowed to return to France, has been refused
 The crop reports in France are more fla vorable.
 The water in the Seine is remarkably low
 The St. Gothard Railroad was discussed in the Corps LegisIatv, the Government being censured by several members.
 Germany drouth has been severe, and the crop prospects are discouraging.
 A Southerner in Leipsic has been sen tenced to four years imprisonment for an assault on the U. s. Consul.
 Belgium.-A serious conflict of authority between, the police and the military, has occurred
 SO'tserland. The State of Neufchatel has voted in favor of separation of Church and State.
 Naty.-The Soldiers monument on the Solferino battlefield was dedicated last week.
 The Gcumenical Council q. ;'' during the summer One hundred speeches are yet to be made on the InfalhbiIity ques- tion.
 Spain.-The Cortes has passed a gradual Eman equation bill for the Spanish colo nies
 Isabella has abdicated in favor of her son.
 The CorUes has authorized the Spanish Government to proclaim general amnes- ty.
 The Carlist Junta deny that they wisu to restore the Inquisition.
 Iurkey.-Two thousand lives were lost in the great fire at Constantinople. BrdzH-The Anti.Slavery bill before the Chambers frees all children of slaves born after the passage of the act.
 VenezueId.-'Ihe Dutch government de- mand satisfaction for outrages on Dutch men.
 DOMESTIC.
 Gold has fallen to III.
 The Erie Railroad Co., is now quarreli.ng for possession of the Bergen Tunnel
 A New York broker has failed for about a million.
 5000 acres of land were burnt over on Long Island.
 The Fenian leaders have all been indict- eG for breach of the neutrality laws.
 Red Cloud has lost his wife. and lays il to white influence.
 A victim of an Erie Railroad " accident" has recovered $2O,O ,OOO damages.
 The Massachusetts legislature finally ad Journed without doing any thing for the Boston and Erie railroad.
 The collections of internal revenue indi- cate an increase Of $50, 900, 900 over last year.
 The Denver Pacific Railway has been completed, ald the first train has arrived at Denver.
 John w. Stewart is the Republican cau- didate for Governor of Vermont.
 The strike of the Cigar Makers is over. It continued four months.
 Orders will shortly be issued assigning white recruits to the United States colored regiments.
 One man was killed and 13 wounded by an explosion of fireworks in Philadelphia.
 A terrible nitro-g Iycerine explosion has occurred in Worcester, Mass, thirty per sons being injured, and much damage done.
 The Commissioner of Agriculture re- ports probable falling off in the wheat crop, but the prospects for large yield of oats, fruits, and cotton are favorable.
 A man in Tennessee poisoned himself and his three children by using bed-bug poison in mistake for whisky
 lndian'ontrages are reported in Arizona, Texas
 The nomination of Mr. Alderman as Attorney General, has been confirmed by the Senate
 It is reported that Mr. Motley will be re- called