Litchfield enquirer., 1873-01-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN,

Great Britain. Meetings have been held Ill Birmingham and Madrid in favor Of abolition of Slavery in the West Indies.
 Ihlrteen of the gas stokers have serv- ed out their term of imprisonment.
 The Russlan Government has proposed aneutral zone in Central Asia. The steamer that ran down the North fleet IS supposed to be the Pelayo, bound for Havana
 Over 300 emigrants lost their lives by collision in the Channel.
 fTdnce.-The circular of M Jules Si- mon has been approved by the Assembly. Three Communists were shot at Satory. The union of the Orieanists and Leeiti- mists Is reported.
 Germany.-The Prussian Minister of the Interior has made statement concern ing emigration.
 The Court is to go into mourning for the late ex-Emperor Napoleon.
 Prince Bismarck and Count von Roon have explained the causes of the ministe- rial changes ill Prussia
 Russia.-The Russian press represent m arrangement with Great Britain in re- gard to Central Asia as probable.
 Haly.-Slight eruptions from Mount Vesuyius have taken place.
 Peru.-An attempt has been made to assassinate the President
 Brdzii.--Yellow fever is raging at Rio Janeiro
 DOMESTIC.
 A prominent California lawyer killed himself, last week.
 The cashier of bank ill Exeter, N. II. has defaultedssin S190,C0O So great was the confidence in him that his bonds had not been renewed.
 The Modoc war is not to be finished till spring.
 Messrs. Phelps, Dodge, < Go. have made mp to the government the amounts of which they defrauded the revenue: $26O,O0O.
 Cameron has been reelected U. s. Sen ator from Pennsylvania.
 John P. Jones has been elected U. S Senator from Nevada.
 There is strong evidence that Bogy, l.. s. Senator from Missouri, got his posi-. tion by bribery
 The public improvements now ill pro gress in New York city will cost about S22, ,G0O,OOO.
 A heavy sneak robbery occurred in Wall St., Wednesday.
 Albany is busy with new charter for New York.
 Senator Conkling has been reelected from New York.
 Wm. Foster was sentenced to be hanged on March 7.
 Pratt's oil works in Brooklyn have been seriously damaged by fire.
 Cunningham, the Mississippi warrant forger, has been sentenced to 15 years in State prison.
 The New Jersey legislature is busy with railroad schemes.
 About the usual number of murders occurred in New York, last week.
 Wm. Cassidy, editor of the Albany Ar gus, and prominent leader of the old New York Democracy, died Thursday.
 The Pennsylvania Constitutional Con vention decide to hold State elections In November instead of October, as here tofore.
 The Supreme Court of Louisiana has decided in favor of the anti-Warmouth board of returning officers.
 There IS serious conflict between feder- al and local courts in Utah.
 The hearing in the Greeley will case was continued at White Plains Monday, and further testimony to the unsOund ness of the testators mind adduced.
 Minister DeLong, our Minister to Chi ma, has resigned, and George F. Seward IS named for the post.
 In the Shaw poisoning case, develop ments have occasioned the arrest or Mrs. Briggs the alleged paramour of Shaw.
 In consequence of the horse disease in Nevada, every furnace in the Eureka min ing district has suspended.
 The majority of the Mass. House com mittee on Temperance advocate repeal of the Beer law.
 The Boston public library is to be open ed Sunday afternoons.
 The death rate in Boston increased 37 per cent last year.
 The National theatre was burnt at Washington, Tuesday.
 Tweeds trial is progressing.