Litchfield enquirer., 1872-01-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Great Britain.--It is officially announc- ed that the Prince of Wales Is out of dan- ger. a s- A ship has foundered on the coast, the crew being lost. .lssst F.. s.s3.,a.+ Fl
 Five children were killed and several injured by boiler explosion in Glasgow.
 France, President Thiers spoke against the proposed income tax ill the French Assembly, last week. The liberty of the press is to be still further restricted
 The Prince de Joinville will shortly re- sign his seat in the Assembly. .e.Is}'
 Gen. Sherman has arrived in Marseilles.
 Victor Hugo is candidate for the French Assembly.
 A naval expedition against Greece is preparing.
 The sale of political earicatures is for bidden in France. #f&<5 Et5
 Russja.-A steamship has been lost in the Caspian Sea, with all OH board
 Anrtyia. Reichsrath opened Mon- day, the Emperor making a speech.
 Ch6a.-Iti is reported in Madrid that Valmaseda will shortly be superseded by Marshal Concha
 Valmaseda has ordered war of exter- imitation against the Cuban patriots.
 Another regiment has left Snain for
 The Florida was boarded but not de- tained by the Spanish officers
 A.frica.-lmportant gold discoveries hace been made in South Africa. ..s5 ss-<ss DOMESTIC.
 After disappearing for few days, Tweed procured new bail in place of Far ley, who wished to deliver him up, and is now at large again.
 Warrants have been issued for the ar- rest of Fisk < Gould, on charges of false imprisonment.
 Geo. M. Van Nort has been appointed Commissioner of New York Public Works, gice Wm. M. Tweed, resigned. ~--
 Hackett, the famous comic actor, died at Jamaica, l.. l., last week.
 A Mir. Manning was robbed of securities worth $43, ,00O by a sneak thief, last week.
 The N. Y. Central Savings Bank has suspended payment,
 A New York city bank clerk killed him. self, last week. ..
 A New York city bank was swindled out of $40, 900 by forgeries, last week.
 Sidney E. Morse, brother of the invent or of the electric telegraph and father of the editor of the Observer, died at New York, last week.
 Two of the three Brooklyn elect on in escaped conviction by disagreement of a juror, have at last been convicted
 On Saturday newsboy was killed, try ing to jump upon moving railroad train at Lynn, Mass.
 Burglars tried to crack q safe of the Boston and Prov. R. R. Co.,, Friday night, but were frightened away. A boiler ex- plosion at Baltimore killed one man and wounded several men, last week.
 The snow blockade still continues on the Pacific railroad
 The cases of bank-examiner Calender and harbor-master Hart are under investi- gation i'll New York.
 The Grand Duke is travelling in the Vest
 The ice broke up in the lower Hudson, last week.
 Ex-Collector Murphy, of New York, was serenaded, one night last week, by Fisk's regimental band. Whereupon, the Fri. bune villipends Murphy and others.
 A man was shot dead by drunkard at Atlanta, Ark, on the 20th ut.
 A Pittsburgh stock broker shot him. self, last week.
 Richard M. Tweed became his fathers bondsman, last week, showing property to the amount of $1 10000 -,
 The President has appointed the Civil Service Commission as the Advisory Board' under the new regulations.
 The shoemakers of Natick, Mass, are on strike.
 The United States frigate Chattanooga has been sunk in the Delaware River.
 Six persons were burned to death at Floris, Iowa, last week.
 Several of the South Carolina Ku-Klux have been sentenced.
 The thermometer at St. Paul, Minn., on Wednesday, registered B below zero
 The steamship Florida has foundered Ill the Gulf of Mexico, but no lives were lost. .
 A ''trunk mystery" has been unearthed in Chicago.
 The coin balance in the United States Treasury, Wednesday last, was over $109,- GOO, 900.
 Two servant girls have been burned to death at Wheatland, Penn.
 The Arkansas negro troubles are at an end ....
 Six men were severely burned by a gas explosion in Oil City, Penn.
 A white desperado shot three negroes at Christmas festival near CovingtOn, Ky.
 The Ku-Klux have murdered several negroes in Missouri.
 Two cases of garroting have occurred in Salt Lake Clay.
 There were in store in Chicago, on the 23d ult., 5,218, 900 bushels of grain.
 A San Francisco Judge has been fined $300 for an assault on an editor
 One of the California stage robbers has been arrested.
 Bartholomew Barnes was hanged at Pittsfeld, H., on Friday.
 Judge Brady issued an order prohibit ing Mayor Hall from reappointing or re- cognizing the old New York Common Council
 A deficiency of $4OO, GOO is reported in the N. Y. Police Department.
 There were 1,314 violent deaths in New York during 1871.
 A call is issued for Convention at Baltimore to form 8 National Roman Cath olic Total Abstinence Association.
 Brigham Young, it is reported, will shortly surrender himself to the U. s. Marshal for trial
 " Several persons were injured by the ex- plosion of a locomotive at Rochester.
 One of the principal s. c. Ku-Klux pris- oners has fled and forfeited his bail.
 The thief who was arrested for robbing parsona' store in this town was found t0