Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.

Great Britain-John Bright expects to attend the next session of Parliament.
 The Bishop of Exter has been 1mobbed by anti-temperance men in that city.
 A terrible storm has prevailed, doing great damage.
 Five persons have been drowned ill q coliery.
 France,-Marshal MacMahon declines to become candidate for the Vice-Presi- dency of the Republic
 Victor Place has been setenced to two years i'm prisonment.
 Count de Chambord has issued another manifesto concerning his claims to the throne.
 Fourteen persons have been killed or wouded by railroad accident
 Ratssia.-The use of the Russian lan- guage has been made compulsatory ill Poland.
 A town in Asiatic Russia has been de- stoyed by an earthquake, many lives be- ing lost.
 Spoin.-The Ministry, finding them selves in a minority, resigned, last week The king refused to accept their resigna- tion, the Cortes has been dissolved, and 8 general election ordered for April 2d.
 There has been riot in Barcelona.
 Itaty.-A new religious journal has been established in Rome, Pere Hyacinth being one of the contributors.
 1urkey.-The cholera has disappeared from Constantinople.
 South Africa.-Further diamond dis coveries have been made.
 San Domingo. has established another Provisional Government.
 South America.-A terrible steamship hoe 1,o A. ican Coast, 87 lives being lost.
 DOMESTIC.
 In the test case arising out the West field explosion, last summer, the jury gave the plaintiff $5, GOO damages.
 Investigation of the accounts of the New York Bowling Green Savings Bank develops much fraud and mismanage- ment.
 The Wisconsin Assembly request their members of Congress to vote for the post al telegraph bill. ... A drunken woman set Brooklyn tene- ment house on fire and was herself burn ed mp, last week.
 A man killed his wife and then himself in New Hampshire, last week.
 At trial in Charlestown, West Va, last week, the plaintiff and defendant got rom WOruS IO DlOWS UAIeI1 IO at each other. The plaintiff was serious ly wounded.
 The Liberal Republicans of Missouri held convention, last week. They de- nounced the abuses of public patronage, and the "enchroachments of executive, power," and demanded general amnesty and tariff reform.
 Negroes are at last to be allowed to tes- tify in Kentucky courts @
 A man was nearly pounded to death III the Georgia House at recent session.
 Two children were burned to death i'll Michigan, last week.
 Convicted South Carolina Ku-Klux are sent to Albany, N. Y.,, for imprisonment
 Small poxis raging in Canada.
 A prominent witness in the Utah murder trials has been arrested for perjury.
 A One Term resolution was defeated in the Kansas Senate, last week.
 Small pox is raging violently at Thayer. Iowa.
 The Chicago Grand Jury are convinced that number of Aldermen and other city officials have been bribed, but can not get legal testimony against them be- cause the witnesses had absconded
 A bill providing board of auditors for New York city has passed the legislature Of that state. -..I
 It seems that others beside Terwilliger have taken printing percentages. '
 The religious amendment people held their convention at Cincinnati, on Wednes- day. ...--..... .,...
 The birthday of Gen. Lee was celebrated in Savannah, Ga., on the 18th ut.
 The Maine legislature are discussing q General Railroad Law. r-s4 a aeu.
 All is quiet in Louisiana. A
 A '1ocal prohibition" bill has been re- ported in the New York legislature. A young candidate for the ministry has been caught stealing books from a Gin cinnati public library. ... .....-a.a
 The captain of the Chatauqua steam boat, which exploded last summer, has been arraigned for manslaughter. 1
 Miss Mansfeld was hooted by Boston mob, Friday. ...;- -... .-,s,.
 There were two suicides in San Francis co, Thursday. -a
 There was meeting in Steinway Hall, Friday evening, in favor of Prison Re form. Addresses were made by Horatio Seymour and others.
 Gen. Hancock declines to be considered a candidate for the Presidency. g
 The Gov. of Missouri has vetoed the bill for paying the interest of their State bonds in currency.
 Charges of gross neglect and misman- agement are made againt New York hos pitals.
 The Richmond Qnd. City Gas Works exploded, last week, but no lives were lost.
 Secretary Robinson was married, on Tuesday of last week.
 The Union Pacific Railroad is again blocked with snow. .ss1
 Two men have been killed and several injured by powder explosion in Colorado.
 Mrs. Wharton has been acquitted of the charge of murdering Gen. Ketchum, and released on bail. ##F
 John B. Panormo, music teacher. was mysteriously murdered in Brooklyn, last Wednesday. s.,..
 Decisions have been rendered in 1s- bany in the Tweed and Connolly before the Supreme Court afirmiyJ. l.. legality of their arrest. f East ' One man was killed and seyersyury. by an accident on the Alabsshouse oi Railroad, Thursday. aEs Jones,
 Gen. Ewell, the distinese c~csa t,oufea- r crate general, died at his residence in Maury Co.,, Thursday.
 The Nebraska legislature has finally adjourned. On Friday the Legislative and Pension bills were passed. s Gems. Porter and Babcock have .pub- lished letters desiring that thev may he