Connecticut western news., 1874-09-18
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 Abroad. Dispatches from the Wichita Agency, I, T., tell of prolonged engagement between the United States troops under Gen. Davidson and the Kiowas and Noconees. Gen. Davidson succeeded in punishing the Indians without serious loss on his side and is in pursuit of the flying enemy. An incident of the engagement was the attempt of the Indians to destroy by fire the buildings of the Wichita Agency; but the designs of the incendiaries were frustrated. ..... Twenty lashes with the "cat" were given in Nottingham Prison few days since to man named Burrows, who had been con- victed forty times for various offences, and was again sentenced to seven years penal servitude and 8 f1ogging for a highway robbery. The prisoner tainted when the punishment was finished. .... ."We believe we can affirm, says the Corastitutionnel ''that the French Government has no thought of demanding the extradition of Marshal Bazaine." .... During the present month the United States Govern ment sells $3,000,0OO in gold. A Shenan- doah, Pa, man, named Lebaugh, shot and killed lad named Mcguire. The boy was stealing fruit. The indignation of the people 
 quest, was taken to Pottsville and lodged in jail. There is no doubt the excited crowds of men would have resorted to lynch law had he remained in town longer. .... A portion of the Washington avenue Hotel, in process of altera- tion in St. Lotus, fell in, while twenty-five workmen-plumbers, carpenters, and laborers, were at work within it. Many of them suc- ceeded in escaping without much difficulty. Ten were buried with the building, but fortu- nately all were taken out without any very serious injuries.
 The United States public debt statement shows & decrease in the debt during the last month at $1,626, ,760; coin in the Treasury, $71, ,083 300; coin certificates, $29, Al ,OOO currency, $16, ,000; special deposit of legal tenders for redemption of certificates of de- posit; $58, ,69O,000; total legal tenders, $382,- 100000. The total debt, less cash in the Treasury, is $2,14O, ,178, ,614.25. The Carlsts under Alvarez defeated and drove off the column of Gen. Loma, who was attempting to throw provisions into Vitoria.. .. A party of six surveyors from Lawrence, Kansas, were massacred by Indians, near Lone Tree, forty miles south and twenty miles west of Fort Dodge. The names of the party are as follows: Oliver F. Short, D. F. Short, John F. Kench- Ter, James Shaw, Allen Shaw, and H. D. Jones. Three of the number were scalped. ... The Attorney General of the United States has decided that the proviso in the Army Appropriation bill of the last session of Con- gress, to the effect that only the actual travel ing expenses shall be allowed to any person
 
 the United States, supersedes and cuts off the allowance of mileage to United States mar shals, as provided in the Free bill. . A horse disease, similar in character to that of two years since, has broken out at St. John N. B., with great violence. A large proportion of the working horses of the city are sick, and many have died. The disease is believed to have been introduced by the horses attached to one of the travelling circuses - The representatives of the Atlantic steamship lines held final conference at Liverpool, and took steps which put an end to competition between them. They fixed the rate of a steerage pas sage at five guineas on the fast and five pounds on the slow lines, and agreed to carry freight at minimum rates, which are about fifty per cent. below those of the old arrangement. =. There has been some rioting in the province of Barcelona, Spain, caused by opposition to the conscription. In some instances the boxes containing the names of those liable to draft were stolen and burned.
 The first of the new United States iron sloops of war was launched at Roach's ship yard in Chester, Pa.. The Carlist Gems. TristaDy and Mora were defeated by the Re- publicans near Sec de Urgel, losing 400 killed and wounded. .... The tobacco crop in Con- | necticut is excellent. .... A little son of Mir. Clifford, milkman of Tompkinsville, Staten Island, entered his fathers barn. and lighting piece of paper, exclaimed as he threw the match into the straw, "Now I'll have fun. , The straw blazed, and the building was soon enveloped in flames. The building was de- stroyed, as were Cliffords house, and Henry Poppels frame building. The loss is estimated at SIC, 900. .... The Democrats of the Twelfth Ohio District have nominated A. T. Walline for Congress. .... Col. Carlton B. Curtis ot Erie, has been renominated for Congress bJ the Republicans of the Twenty-seventh Penn. sylvana District. .... The Republicans of the First Wisconsin District have nominated L. B Caswell for Congress. The Democrats o1 the Twenty-third Pennsylvania District have nominated Alex. G. Cochran for Congress.
 Judge F. H. Waite, of Mankato, was nomi mated for Congress by the Democrats of tht First Minnesota District. .. .. The eleventh call for redemption of five-twenty bonds O. 1862, by the United States Secretary of tht Treasury, is as follows By virtue of authority given by act of Congress, approved July IA 1870, entitled ian act to authorize the refund ing of the national debt, hereby give notice that the principal and accrued interest of tn, bonds herein below designated known as five twenty bonds, will be paid at the Treasury O. the United States in the city of Washington on and after the first day of September, 1874 and that the interest on said bonds will ceas, on that day, that is to say, coupon bond known as the third and fourth series, |" Act O. Feb. 25, 1S62 dated May 1, 1862, as follows Coupon bonds, third series, $50, Nos. IA, ,5O to 17,874, both inclusive $10O, Nos. 45, 1O1 tt 54 ,928, both inclusive {; $500, Nos. 28, 7O1 tt 30, 963, both inclusive $1,0O0, Nos. 7O, POI tc 78, 132, both inclusive. Fourth series, $50 Nos. 1 to 1,31O, both inclusive; $1OO, Nos to 1866, both inclusive $500, Nos. 1 t, 1,7s6, both inclusive; $1,oO0, Nos, to 4,27O both inclusive; total $12, 100000. Registered bonds-$50, Nos. 1,751 to 1,sOO, both inclu sive; $1Oo Nos. 1s,SO1 to 13,9OO, both in elusive; $500, Nos. 7,7O1 to 7,95O, both in elusive $1 1000, Nos 31,61O to 32, $50, both in elusive; 5000, Nos. 9.8O1 to 10, 15O, both in elusive; $1O,ooo, Nos. 11,751 to 12, 500, botl inclusive; total, $s,OOo,OO Grand total l 15,OOO,O0O Of the amount outstanding (embraced in the numbers as above) $12, ,OOO,. 900 are coupon bonds, and $3OOO, ,OOO are registered bonds United States securities forwarded for redemption should be addressed to the Loan Division, secretary's office. And | all rapistered honds sboul6 ha assionad to +l,