Litchfield enquirer., 1873-08-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.

FOREIGN. Great Britain.-The London journals contradict the rumor of Prince Arthur's engagement to the Princess Thyra of Denmark.
 MT. Ayrton has resigned his position in the British Ministry and Sir Joha Duke Coleridge, late Attorney General of Eng land, has declined the office of Master of the Rolls.
 Parliament was prorogued, last week, by speech from the Queen.
 A conservative candidate has been re- turned to the British Parliament from East Stafordshire
 MT. Motley was reported struck with apoplexy but the rumor proves to be un- true.
 Intelligence has been received of the safety of the Ernst Moritz Arndt and of the Alabama.
 Frrnce.-The Count of Paris has been to see the Count of Chambord and it is said has acknowledged his title, but ex- President Thiers thinks that no fear need be entertained of fusion of Orleanists and Bourbonists.
 There will only be a middling harvest this year in France
 French troops have entered Nancy, lately evacuated by the Geemans.
 AustriG.-The cholera has disappeared from Vienna, nevertheless the number of visitors to the Vienna Exposition is de- creasing daily.
 Spain.-Valencia and Cadiz have sur rendered to the government.
 The Carlists are concentrating around Burgos, in Spain.
 Il,o l,o-,o ,>o,aol l>.1J constitutional guarantees to Porto Rico.
 The German officer, who seized the Wig ilante at Cartagena, Is to be deprived of his command.
 Merico.-The Chief Justice of the Su- preme Court has pronounced decision granting the Jesuits the protection of the laws.
 The insurgent chief Lozada has been ex-
 Canado.-Thr Toronto postofice has been robbed.
 Deputy United States Marshal R. T. Dunn was assassinated at Corinth, Miss, on Friday night.
 Governor Dix has vetoed the new State Prison bill for the reason that there is now new State Capitol in progress.
 Thomas Woodson, nephew of Governor Woodson, of Missouri, killed William Barlow in corn-feld near Percival Sta tion, Ia., Saturday.
 Drunken whites attacked the Chinamen engaged on the narrow guage railway near Benicia, Cal, Saturday, tore down their tents, and drove them to the hills
 John Wenz, of Poughkeepsie, shot him. self and his wife, fatally, on Saturday.
 The Virginia Conservative convention have nominated General Kemper for Gov ernor
 The planing-mill of Dietz & Co.,, in Chicago, and adjoining sash factories and lumber yards, were burnt, Thursday. Loss, S7O,OOO
 Dr. Bancker, of New York, has been committed to the Tombs on charge of malpractice.
 The President has signed the new pos- tai treaty with Japan.
 The Massachusetts State Democratic Convention will meet at Worcester on September 3d.
 A case of cholera occurred in New York, Wednesday.
 A Chicago postofice clerk, charged with stealing money, has decamped.
 The wheat and oat crops of Kansas are largely in excess of last year.
 The President promises, if needful, to interfere on behalf of the Fort Gary pris- oners.
 Gov. Dix has pardoned George Smith, sentenced to three years at Sing Sing, for burglary.
 The Havana Bank robber confesses.
 The agents of Russian Quakers who propose to settle in this country have de- cided to found their colony in Harvey County, Kansas.
 Col. Thomas A. Scott was elected Pres ident of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, last week.
 The Cherokee nation has held gener- al election.
 One fatal case of cholera is reported from Columbus, o. ;.
 The loss by fires Monday, in different cities amounted to total of about $200,- 900.
 A strike of the employees of several New York wholesale boot and shoe shops are threatened. ~
 A young New York cigar-maker swal- lowed poison, shot his employer, and mortally wounded himself Monday.
 Frauds in the office of the New York Inspector of Imported Cigars have been -01ScOVofeQs
 Indian outrages are reported from Vest ern Texas
 Nearly 800 painters have been on the strike during the past three weeks in con- sequence of the bosses wanting them to return to the ten-hour plan.
 The bodies of sixty of the vic- tims of the Wawasset disaster have been recovered Both white and colozed strag- glers have been seen robbing the eorpses washed ashore. A thorough investigation into the causes of the disaster is demand ed. The feeling in Washington is that the steamboat company is responsible for the accident.
 Four conyicts escaped from Sing Sing Monday night.
 1859 emigrants arrived at Castle Gar den Monday.
 The White Mountain stage upset, Mon- day, killing two passengers and injuring eleven more.
 Among recent brutal events in this city is the fight of husband. the father of