Litchfield enquirer., 1870-03-10
News of the Week.
FOREIGN.

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 9yeu Britain. The proposition fo, Government aid to emigration has beel defeated in Parliament. szHpg -s .
 Mir. Gladstone has announced the i'm proved condition of the Fenian prisoners.
 The Irish members have resolved to support the Land bill, but will not refrain from amendment, and the Ministry prom ise every needed modification. ,t s-.,s.
 France festivities preceding Lent in Paris took place without molestation
 Prince Bonaparte has been summoned to answer for the homicide of Victor Noir.
 North Gernsany.-The Reichstag have voted for the abolition of capital punish ment. + '
 The assimilation of weights, measures, and coinage is to be speedily established.
 Bavaria. Bray succeeds Prince Hohenlohe as head of the Bavarisn Minis
 Russia. Czar has paid visit ol coincidence to Mis- Burlingame. He also sends messages of regret to Washington, and his wife to Mrs. Burlingame. Ire. Spain. Duke of Montpensier. has returned to Madrid but is strenuously. op posed by Gen. Prim, and ministerial cri sis is again announced as imminent. "=5 Secretary Fish makes earnest inquiry regarding the execution of an American citizen in Cuba. .-:g ... Rome Growing opposition to Infalli bility is reported. It is said that the Amer ican bishops oppose it, and that France will withdraw her troops from Rome if ii is decreed.
 eanada.-'rhe Winn,pegs have begged into the Canadians to some purpose. Gen T o oR under Major Bolton. defeated them, cap. tured some and put the rest to flight.
 The Canadian Parliament again threat. ems retaliatory Legislation in default of ure- ciprocity. .3,sas. e,.t.-n... e.ft pied San Louis and Zacatecas. @"07 Gen Placido Vega is at tho head of a revolution in Sinaloa. x ii r...s..s sess
 Cxba-Gen. Jordan's resignation is re ported in Havana. Arango, 8 prominent Cuban, has safren. dered to the Spaniards. :lsafat. 94.
 &. Domingo. A vote has been taken ia vorable to annexation to the U. States. The Haytians are also said to favor anneyatioa.
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 The trial of Daniel Mcfarland is post. poned till April. -.
 The New Midister from Venezaela died of apoplexy. on Tuesday the 8th inst, in Washington. ,se@'eli s..5 <, @s'aa ,2a
 John 4. Phillips, Deputy Collector of Revenue in the 9th District, is charged with stealing $30, 900, -.r..} 4 ., = 7
 4 grand jury ot women has been sworn in in Wyoming Territory lsz
 South Carolina will pay the interest on its bonds in gold c1. " -.- ...:e =..--.
 The ore from tue new silver mines. in New Mexico yields $2 GOO ton. sassaA
 The North Csrolina House has refused to provide for paying the interest on the State bonds. a eT-
 A portiea qg the Inshriata Asylum. at RinGhamton was burned on Friday. ? 49t
 Charleston is named as the. capital oi West Virginia, - .,i5.7 D..- i The Hartford and Erie Railroad has been attached by the contractors for $l, 50O.O 600. q Gf..E21G aka| t3=ft est 54 E A San Francisco school-teacher has re ceived six months imprisonment for crn. ely punishing pupil. i.s- s<i
 Among the jurors drawn for the March term of the Albany County (Wyoming) Court were eleven women. .f 1s ..ts.7
 Portland, Me. is paying it's coupons in gold. n ' i's@
 A Woman Suffrage bill, submitting the question to the vote of the people. irre-