Connecticut western news., 1874-04-10
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


 By 8 law which recently passed the Missouri Legislature, the selling or giving intoxicating liquor to any minor or habitual drunkard, after warning from wife, parent or guardian, is to be punished by fine of not less than $40 and forfeiture of license . The Khedive is pre- pairing to send another expedition up the Nile, under the command of an English officer, Colonel Gordon. The object is peaceful, and Gordon will only take with him 250 men, and a mitrailleur. .. Tho Michigan Legislature has agreed to submit the question of woman suffrage to the people. .... The Agassiz Me- morial fund has reached $91 ,23s. .... At a temperance prayer-neeting at Columbus, Ohio, reports were received that number of new saloons were being started in the suburbs. It is thought they are being opened by men who have bee1 prayed out of. other places. A call was made for more laborers in the temperance vineyard. .... The U. s. Senate indorsed the decision arrived at by the House, that the issue of the $44, 900, 900 of reserve notes should be legalized, and the maximum amount of United States notes fixed at $400, ,00O, ,0O0 Turkey and Russia are said to be quietly pre- pairing for War against each other.
 The floor manager at Colored ball in New York separated two men who were fighting on the floor, and pushed one of them, a man named Bryan, toward the door leading down stairs. He fell against the door which was half open and stumbled against the camp stool on the landing and with it fell down the stairs, breaking his neck. .... Several months ago Pension Agent H. c. Bennett of San Francisco, disappeared mysteriously. It was then said that his accounts with the Government were all right, but further investigation discloses a dedication to large amount ... A fire de- stroyed two small frame houses in Washington. occupied by colored families. Two small chil- dren of Myra Campbell, who were asleep in the upper story of one of the houses were burned to death. .... Two colored men were hanged at Sumter and white man at Abbeville, s. C., for murder. Several other murderers are to pay the penalty in few weeks. .. Richard v. De Peyster, of Rutherford Park, N. J., fell dead in the barroom of the Remsen House, Harlem. .. At Portsmouth, N. H., one of the children of Ralph Bracey found an apple in the yard, which she shared with the other mem- bers of the same family. Shortly after eating, all four became seriously ill, and before medi- cal assistance arrived, the eldest, girl, had died in great agony, with symptoms of arsenic poisoning; the other children continue in 6 precarious condition. It is thought the apple was purposely placed there by some malicious person.
 The scarcity of work which was the cause of so much suffering among the poor this winter has been followed by scarcity of workers Those institutions which act as labor agencies report their orders for workers for the country far in excess of their ability to supply them ......A new temperance society has been organized in the Town of Rye, under the name of the Rye Temperance Union. Wright the Teller of the Bradford Savings Bank, when arrested at Potsdam, N. r., had in his possess sion $4, 300 ill money. =. .. Charles w. Crook, Paymaster of the Seventh Regiment N. G. s. N. J., residing at Lambertville, N. J., com mitted suicide from financial embarrassment ...... Innocent Victoria has twenty-one grand children. ... Miss Mary Louisa Shaw, who died Jan 31, has bequeathed $67, 900 to chari- table institutions in Boston, Catholic and Protestant alike.
 Several Deputies have presented resolutions in the Lower House of the Reichsrath, of Austria, requiring the government to expel from the country the Jesuits and all orders affiliated herewith. The total number of Jesuits in Austria is 494; of whom 226 are priests, 120 students and the balance lay .. The annual boat race between the Oxford and Cambridge boats crews over the usual course on the Thames, from Putney to Mortlake, distance four miles and two furlongs, resulted in 0 victory for the Cam bridge boat, which came in four lengths ahead of it's rival. .... The Secretary of the U. s. Navy sent an order to the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury requiring that officer to pay the amounts of prize and bounty money due fsr the capture of New Orleans and the destruction of the enemy's ships. The total amount of proper is $53o, ,ooo and $2OO, ,OoO additional bounty for the destruction of the vessels. The number of United States ships of-war that took part in these engagements is forty-four. .... There is reason to fear that the. peach crop was injured somewhat by the sudden and severe alterpations of heat and cold during the latter part of February.