Connecticut western news., 1874-10-30
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CulL185, hAA WILL HUI . AAAO 4abSA5A government has under consideration a proposal to unite into confederation the colonies of the Cape of Good Hope. Foreign reports say the crop prospects are such that the price of wheat is still declining. .Chas A. Dana declines the nomination of the workingmen for Mayor of New York city y......At 8 fire in Boston ten horses were burned to death. .. Gen. B. F. Butler was renominated for Con gress at Newburyport, Mass. ..The Mormons are creating disturbances with the U. s. mar shals. A marshal was knocked down while trying to enter Brigham Young's private office.
 The Kentucky tobacco crop has been badly damaged by frost. ... The Argentine revolu- tion in South America gives promise of ending without bloodshed. :. Several hundred horses have died within month or two in Monterey county, California, from the effect of eating poisonous plant called " rattleweed," which produces symptoms similar to those of in- sanity. .. There are fifty thousand working men out of employment in New York. ...... The village of Ovid, Seneca county, N. r., was the scene of 6 disastrous conaagration re- gently. Thirty buildings, embracing nearly the entire business part of the village, were destroyed. The fire originated in saloon and is supposed to have been accidental. The loss is estimated at $50, ,000.. The trial of Rudolph and Royal Sammis, charged with the murder of Charles G. Kelsey, in Huntington, l.. l., in connection with the tarring and feathering, was postponed at Riverhead until the next circuit, which does not convene until April, 1875. It is two years since the affair occurred . Tho Turkish town of Akhiolyi, containing 5000 inhabitants, and situated on the Gulf of Burghas in the Black Sea, has been totally destroyed by confagration.t
 The steamtug Topham, while towing 8 raft of logs, exploded near Westport Bridge, Maine, killing Wm. Allen, the fireman, and fatally scalding the cook. The body of the fireman, it is supposed, was blown to pieces. =. Dis patches from Rio Janeiro contain information of . serious riot in Para between Portuguese and Brazilians. A number were killed and many wounded. e. The "C Cviil Damage Act ' is doing well for the temperance cause. Rum was sold to lad in Brooklyn, which led to his death, and the father has recovered $2, ,000 damages from the man who furnished the fluid. ... The ex-Empress Eugenie, of France, l and her son have telegraphed their thanks to the people of Ajaccio for having elected Prince | Bonaparte to the Council General over Prince Napoleon. .. While Ellen Nestor, cook in l New York, was kneeling at prayer before the range recently, her clothes caught fire and she was burned to death. .. The Ossge Indians want peace, and desire to become civilized. .. The suit of Christian O. Ross, father of the now world-renowned Charley Ross, who was abducted from his fathers residence at Ger mantown on July 1 last, against the Reading Eagle, terminated in verdict for the plaintiff. A motion for 8 new trialin the case was made but the case will probably end there.
 It is reported in London that Prince Bis marck agrees to guarantee to Spain the interest on the Spanish German loan, taking as security for it's ultimate payment lien on the island of Porto Rico. .... . In MacKenzies fight with the Comanches, five Indians were certainly killed, and probably ten or twelve were wounded. Fourteen hundred and six horses and mules were captured, from which 36O of the best were selected to be retained, and 1,046 were shot to prevent the possibility of their again falling into the hands of the hostile Indians in case of any attempt at stampede. All the lodges were burned. d...... The Spanish government paid $75,0 ,000 to Eng land on account of the Virginius slaughter. . Another Texan steer made raid through the streets of New York, but only three per sons were injured. The crowd was to blame in this case for exciting the frightened animal. eco. The insurrection in the Argentine Con- federation still continues, with advantages for the rebels. The government is crippled by political rivalries John Williams, (colored), l l,,- ,S-o5 and ten years, died in Providence, R. I.
 A train was wrecked at Dyer, Tennessee, by which two soldiers of the 18th United States Infantry were killed and number injured. ... In tavern brawl in Tavistock, Canada, a farmer from East Zorra had both ears bitten off and was otherwise frightfully mutilated by one of the canvas men connected with Coles circus .. The church question in Germany was tested at an election in one of the towns of Westphsia and resulted in an ultramontane defeat. .. A large Communist meeting was held at Chicago, in which it was declared that the workingmen must rule the city. ..... A law passed by the last United States Congress allows Chinamen to vote upon being natural ized. !. Returns from all the legislative dis tricts in Indiana show the following result |: The Senate stands, Democrats twenty-three Republicans twenty-four, and Independents, three. In tke House the Democrats have fifty-two, the Republicans tbirty-seven, and the Independents eleven. The Democratic majority on the State ticket will probably reach IS, 00O . Harrison Ludington, Mayor of Milwaukee, has accepted a call, signed with out respect to party, to run for Congress in the Fourth Wisconsin District The Republi- cans will make no nomination. .. The Dems- crats Of the First Massachusetts District nomi- mated Louis Lapham for Congress. .. J. M. s. Williams was nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Eighth Massachusetts Dis trict. .. sCharles J. Everett was nominated for Congress by the Republican Convention of the Thirteenth New York district.
 In the Second Congressional District, Chicago, Joseph D. Ward has been nominated by the Republicans. .... The Rev. Robert Collyer, of Chicago, has refused the invitation to become pastor of the Church of the Messiah, New York ga. Four hundred Carlists have been captured by the Republican troops near Albacete. In the recent engagement at Am posta 1000 Carlists were killed. The Navarro soldiers in Don Carlos's army refuse to leave their province and march into Leon. .. Wis Id dconsin has begun raising cotton. The first s1 bale ever grown in that State was recently on exhibition in Janesville. :. The people on Cape Cod are making fortunes in the porgy , fishery this year; 2O 1000 barrels were taken in and about Provincetown harbor by steamers in one week. .... Wendell Phillips has been invited to England to lecture on labor ques-
 tions. s... The Concordia parish grand jury
 composed of two white men and the rest colored, hsys. found g true bill against Dave Young, a colored member of the Louisiana Legislature, for embedding ,0OO belonging
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