Litchfield enquirer., 1871-08-17

FTQ5ace.-1ne Assembly has passed A vote favorable to the prolongation of President Thiers' official term three years. A bill has been introduced providing for gratuitous and compulsory education. The German occupation will cease dar ing the present year. The Mt. Cenis Tunnel is complete sue cess.
 Germany. cholera has appeared iu Prussia. The remainder of the new U. S., loan, $12O GOO, 900, has been sold in Berlin. Non-sectarian schools have been estab. lished in Alsace and Lorraine The Emperors of Germany and Austria met at Wells, Monday. The Berlin Stock Exchange refuses to allow the quotations of the New York City loan to appear in the official stock list.
 Asia.-A terrible typhoon has caused great damage in Japan.
 An island in the Malay Archipelago has been depopulated by tidal wave, over 400 lives being lost.
 The Mahommedan rebellion in Northern China is of serious character.
 DOMESTIC.
 It is now reported that the cotton crop will equal that of last year.
 Tennie O. Clahin addressed 0 German mass meeting. at New York last week.
 A system of blackmailing has been dis covered in the Washington Police Court. The tax on borrowed banking capital will be collected as usual, Gen. Pleason- tons recent decision having been reversed. A postal money order system has been established between this country and Great Britain.
 Two men have been killed in Washing ton by the fall of an embankment.
 Heavy shipments of California flour have have been made to Asiatic ports. Charges of fraud are made against the military authorities at the Missouri River trading posts.
 A Jewish Rabbi has been expelled from his synagogue in Chicago for eating ice cream on the Sabbath.
 A woman in East Cambridge, Mass, is charged with murdering three infants who wese "farmed out" to her Vice President Colfax had Q public re. ception at Milwaukee.
 The National Labor party have issued their platform. Serious fires have occurred in Philadel. pbia, Rochester, N. Y., and Rochester, N.
 Charles Francis Adams has accepted the appointment of Arbitrator at Geneva on the Alabama claims.
 The troubles in the Republican party in Louisiana culminaSed Thursday, two Con- ventions being organized.
 Thirty one persous were injured by gunpowder explosion in Vienna, Ohio.
 Two persons were killed in the Hoosac Tunnel by nitro gycerine The Republicans have elected 20 mem- bers of the Lower House of the Kentucky Legislature.
 There were 50 wounded at the Maine Central Railway disaster.
 Election riots occurred in Paris, LexiDg- ton, and Frankfort, Ky, last week. two white men and one negro being killed and many injured.
 A tornado in Wisconsin caused immense damage, two persons being drowned.
 Two persons were killed and several in- jured by a railway accident in Texas.
 A contract has been made for tunneling the Sierra Nevada. The Massachusetts Labor Reform Con- vention met in Boston last week, but made no nominations. A Chinaman committed @ probably fatal assault upon Pole, in New York last week. The number of deaths from the Westfeld explosion has been over 100. Franz Joseph von Messner was hanged at Rochester, last week.
 Eighteen lives were lost Monday, by an explosion in Pittston coal mine. J. O. Bancroft Davis has been appointed Agent for the United States on the Alabama claims.
 Four lives have been lost and many per sons in jured by steamboat explosion on Chautauqua Lake.