Connecticut western news., 1874-12-11
SUMMARY OF NEWS,


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 MT. Cobb has accepted the Republican nOmi- nation for Mayor of Boston The Virginia State board of canvassers have given Goode, Conservative, of the Second Congressional District, certificate of election by 131 ma jority. .... The St. John Globe says that the heir of the Jamieson estate in Scotland, worth from 97O0O0 to G1,O00,000, was discovered there in the person of John w. B. Jamioson, Q young man ill poor circumstances, recently employed in peddling stationery. .... There is much sickness in Mobile. The smallpox is raging, among the negroes particularly, though some whites have been attacked. The Marine Hospital, the City Hospital, and the Sisters Hospital are full of patients, and many deaths occur w Tho sponsors of the son of the Duke of Edinburgh wore Queen Victoria, tho Emperor of Russia, who was represented by the Gzarowitch, the German Emperor, repre- sented by the Duke of Connaught, the Prince of Wales, the Grown Prince of Germany and the Duke of Saxe-Goburg :. A terrible storm occurred in Tuscumbia, Ala, destroying one- third of the residences, killing twelve persons, and injuring many others. The tornado came from the southwest passing northeast. In NEontevaAo twelve or fifteen houses were de- stroyed, two persons killed, aud fifteen or twenty wounded.
 Six moro bodies have boen recovered from the wreck of the Empire at New Orleans, including those of MT. and Mrs. Kemper. The total number of bodies recovered thus far is 28. .. The United States Treasury depart mont has made formal demand upon the tho Central Pacific Railroad Company for five per cent. of it's net earnings since the com pletion of the road By the official vote of Minnesota the majority of Dunnell, Rep. over White, Dem. is 2995. In the Second District is 221. In the Third District the majority for King, Rep. over Wilson, Dem., is 3,348. ..... The official vote of New Jersey is as follows For Governor, Joseph D. Bedle received 97,- 283 votes, and George A. Hslsey 84,O5O votes. Bedles majority, 13,333. .... The schooner Water Lily, lumber laden from St. George for Boston, got behind Shooting Rock. near Prouts Neck, in a storm and anchored. The waves breaking over her the crew left her in a boat which capsized and the captain and two of tho crew were drowned. The captain leaves a
 
 schooner Augustus Ford, bound from Detroit to Oswego, with wheat, was wrecked at Port Maitland, Lake Erie. The captain, Joseph Pease, three of the crew, and woman cook, were lost, by being frozen to death
 Gerret Smith has just given $10,000 to Hamilton College making $20,00 bestowed by him during the year. The money is given for the general uses of the college MT. Smith graduated there some fifty years ago. Senol Mardi has been appointed head of the inanoi al administration of Cuba .. D. B. Frink, OK : editor of the Republican, was shot and instant ly killed at Truckee, New, by an unknown man Frink was member of the Vigilance Com mittee of that place. The Philadelphia Drug Exchange adopted resolution earnestly recommending that Congress repeal the GUS tom tax or eo-called " discrimn ating duty" o 10 per cent. additional on all merchandise the product or growth of countries east of the Cape of Good Hope, when the same is i'm ported from ports west thereof. .... A rhinoc- Geological Gardens, fatally gored two of the keepers. Charles Benson. white and Hattie Neal, colored, were committed to jail in Mem phis in default of ball. for having intermarried ill violation of the Tennessee State laws Senator Hitchcock, eX-Governor Saunders, Joseph Willard, Augustus Kountz, and General James s. Brisbin have been appointed by the Nebraska State Aid Society to proceed to the East and solicit subscriptions in aid of the sufferers. The relief society publish state ment showing the total receips to be $18, ,747.- 6sbu counting clothing distributed. John D. Lewis. of New York, by his will, left $17O, OOO He bequeathed the income of the greater part of his estate to miss of IS, who is at schoo in convent in w estchester county, to be paid her until she is lawfully married, and the principal to be the equally distributed heritage of her children. If she dies before legal mar. risge and without children she is to have grave by his side, and the fortune is to be wholly expended in decorating their resting place in Greenwood Cemetery.
 A train on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad ran into drove of horses, killing eight ot them. A frightful mountain disaster ie reported on the great St. Bernard. Eleven per sons were buried in the snow and perished. number of American newspaper correspond ents have been imprisoned in Spain. ... England makes objections to the proposed Canadian reciprocity treaty with the United States asserting that under it her manifesto. tions are placed at disadvantage. and the treaty would injure them. Statistics show that there ill round numbers 3.200 900 Metho dists in the United States and Canada. Some idea may be formed of the growth of American Methodism by comparing these figures witt the beginning made 108 years ago ill New York, with five members, by Philip Embury 100000 added to the above figures will give the number of Methodist communicants through out the world-3, 900, 900.
 The Comptroller of Currency of the United States, iu his annual report, says twenty hundred national banks have been organized since the establishment of the system. Thirty five have failed and 137 have gone into volun- tary liquidation, leaving 2,O28 banks in exist once. The total circulation of these banks is $351, ,927 ,246, leaving $2,O72, ,754 not issued of the amount authorized. The amount of taxes paid into the Treasury of the United States by the national banks during the year ending July 1, 1874, was $7, ,OS3, 399, of which $3, 4O4, oOo Wolo uoIIfoO lIOLA cucu4IIloll. 1ue average rate of taxation assessed upon the capital of the national banks IS estimated at from 3 to 3I per cent. Tho Comptroller recommends the repeal of the two-cent stamp tax. The Treas urer of the United States holds $3S5, 400, 900 of United States bonds as security for circulating notes. The report of the Postmaster General of the United States shows that the revenues for the year ending Juno 30, 1874, were $24, ,596, 56S and the expenditures $;32 126, All. The estimated expenditures for the year ending June 30. 1876, are $36, ,964, ,O34; total estimated revenue $29, 148, 1856, leaving de- ficiency to be appropriated out of the general treasury of $7815,87S. These estimates do not include appropriations for steamship ser