Litchfield enquirer., 1871-07-27
News Of the Week.
FOREIGN.

FOREIGN
 France.-Pres. Tbiers declares in favor of the independence of the Pope but against war with Italy.
 The Paris elections of Sunday passed of quietly, moderate republicans being cho- sen.
 The opposition factions in the Assembly are said to have united.
 The Minister of Finance has asked the Assembly to retain the cotton tax.
 ltis reported that Jules Favre has re- signed his position in the Cabinet.
 committee of the Assembly has decided in favor of the imposition of a stamp duty on bills. ."'-'.. '--.,..- ---'....'--'
 It is reported that the Orleans Princes have resigned their seats in the Assembly.
 The Prussians are contracting their lim- it's in France "....-.a, - t.'-.-
 Prince Napoleon has been ordered to leave the country.
 Grent Britain. Victoria has re- voked the royal decree establishing the purchase system in the British army.
 Two persons were killed, and 30 wound ed, by railroad accident near Chesterfield.
 A European Conference, to agree on 8 system of import duties, will shortly be held. .
 Mr. Gladstone declares that the civil list
 
 HoHand.-The Parliament refuses to rat fly the treaty for the cession of Guinea to Great Britain. '' ,' -''. '-'.. 'Spdin -Serrano bas succeeded in his at- tempted to form cabinet. b.
 Greece Forty persons have been killed and many wounded, by powder explosion on Greek man of-war.
 Japan. Seven steamers have been wrecked in typhoon on the coast.
 Argentine Republic c.-Tbe yellow fever epidemic has abated at Buenos Ayres.
 San Domingo.-Ths town of Moca has rebelled against Baez.
 DOMESTIC.
 A schooner loaded with petroleum has oeeD burned of the Jersey Flats. - One hundred members of the Ku.Klux have been indicted in North Carolina. .'y A water, spout damaged the Central Pa cific Railroad, last week. .,-, A terrible explosion has occurred in @ Government arsenal in Washington, doing great damage. ......1.L, risburg, last week. g..
 The first bale of new cotton has arrived at Galveston, Texas.
 A Minnesota school teacher is charged with infanticide.
 Bufum, the murderer of Mir. Severns. at Newburgh. has committed suicide in the Auburn Insane Asylum q. la - .l There was a white frost in Virginia on Saturday morning.
 Gen. Shaler's official report to Gov. Hoffman comments the conduct of the troops and the police during the riot. An Unitarian clergyman has committed suicide at Kingston, Mass.
 The business portion of the town of Truckee, Cal, has been burned,
 A steamer has been burned on Lake Michigan, two lives being lost.
 Six men have been killed by locomotive explosion at Maunch Chunk. Grasshoppers are destroying the crops in Western Minnesota.
 A negro, charged with outrages on white women, is threatened with lynching in Ohio. : N t A .a
 The President has returned to Long Branch.
 Gen. Crook has organized an expedition against the Apaches in Arizona.
 Isaac V. w. Buckhout, the Sleepy Hol- low murderer, is sentenced to be hanged, The Army of the James held it's second triennial reunion, last week.
 One man has been killed and 13 wounded by railroad accident in Tennessee.
 $l0, ,000 has been distributed among N. '. policemen injured July 12. '--l. A Mississippi steamer was sunk on Sat- urday. X Gov. Palmer of Illinois has given orders for the arrest of the persons engaged in lynching the murderer Mera.
 A Crispin strike is in progress at Balti- more.
 It has been decided in Ohio that county officers can seize railroad property for local taxes.
 A serious shooting affray has occurred at Hays City, Kansas, between soldiers and citizens, one man being k filed and i've WOuAusps. 3isl la saoH salvAas2H .lia5aq