Connecticut western news., 1874-10-16
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 The disease among the COWS on Jersey City Heights threatens to make corner in milk. The epidemic is confined to the small milk dealers. Patrick Coyle, of Harrington row, reported to the Health Inspector that he had lost fifteen COWS out of twenty-four in the last few weeks. .... In the Howard county (Md.) Circuit Court, the case of Wm. A. Boyd against the Third National Bank of Baltimore, to recover 5000, principal and interest of bonds left with the bank as collateral, and which were stolen from the vault when broken into and robbed by burglars in August, 1872, the jury returned verdict for the plaintiff for the full amount The case was removed from the City Superior Court to the Howard county Circuit Court for trial. =. Robert Templeman, of Dudley, Mass, shot his wife dead with 8 pistol on the 9th of Mayl last, after prolonged debauch. In the Supreme Judicial Court he was allowed to plead guilty of murder in the second degree, and was sentenced to the State Prison for life. The murderer's wife had borne him nineteen children, ten of whom are living. .... The public schools in Penns- vile, Salem county, N. J., were closed to pre- vent the spread of scarlet fever, which has be- proprietor was fined $100 for refusing to give 8 colered man meal. .... The late hurricane at Charleston, s. O., was terrible visitant. The tide was driven up to an unusual extent by the force of the gale, and the wind laid some of the finest ediices in the city in ruins. The Battery sea wall was completely demol- ished. The loss will reach quarter of 8 million dollars.
 The conference between the McEnery and Kellogg parties in New Orleans has resulted in an arrangement whereby an advisory board, consisting of two Conservatives, two Republi- cans. and one Independent Republican, is con- stituted, and is intrusted with the manage ment and revision of registration for the coming election. Kellogg appoints two Demo- crats on the Returning Board, which will then consist of three Republicans and two Demo- clats. The committee representing the Con- servative Party pledge themselves to cause all violence and intimidation, if any exist, to cease throughout the State and to assist the con- stituted authorities in maintaining peace and insuring strictly fair andimpartial registration and election. .... The physician of MT. Ross, the father of the lost Philadelphia boy, testi- fled as follows "I know Mir. c. K. Ross, and am his physician. He is in very prostrats condition. He is not able to leave his house or bed. He has been in that condition since Sunday. He is in condition of prostration in which he is unable to concentrate his thoughts or to express his meaning. His brain is af- fected to that extent. He has no disease that I can recognize at present. He is very thin, and is falling away daily. He does not take his natural sleep. He is seriously indisposed, and it will be long time before he will begin to react from his present condition. cannot speak of the ultimate result"
 The Supreme Court of California has decided that the Local Option law is unconstitutional. The Republicans of the Fifth District of Ohio have nominated Reynolds K. Little, of Delphos, for Congress. The Sixth District Democratic Convention at Orange, N. J., nominated ex-Judge Frederick H. Teese for Congress w The Republicans of the First Maryland Congressional District nominated H. H. Goldsborough, of Talbot. for Congress. .... The Peoples Convention of the Ninth Missouri District has nominated for Congress Col. P. A. Thompson, wealthy farmer and Republican. The Democratic Convention for the Fifth Judicial District nominated the Hon. Albertus Perry, of Oswego, for Justice of the Supreme Court. =. The Democrats of St. Louis nominated for Congress First District, E. o. Kehr; Second, Erastus Wells, Crenon1inatedJ; Third, Wm. H. Stone Gre nominated) " The Nevada Democratic State Nonvapfioo hoe rooou,notad r, R Rrodlav for Governor, Jewett Adams for Lieutenant Governor, and A. O. Ellis, of Ornsby county, for Congress. =. All the European Govern ments represented in the Postal Congress except France have instructed their delegates to sign the convention upon the condition that it receives the support and ratification of the United States. France has reserved the right to hereafter examine the condition before signing the convention. .... During the ter rife typhoon that passed over Hong Kong, damage was done to American vessels as follows The schooner Sea Bird was driven ashore, the bark Lizzie H. lost Ter foremast and mainmast and sustained damage to her hull, the ship Lathley Rich was seriously in- jured, and the ship Therese was driven out of the harbor. In all five vessels were sunk, two stranded seven are missing, and twelve were wholly or partially dismasted. The first conviction under the Mississippi State Ku-Klux law has been that of a negro known as King Henderson in De Sotocounty, who with twenty other negroes inflicted about seven hundred lashes on the bare back of John Stevens, g colsred man. Henderson was found guilty by jury composed of six white and six colored men, and was sentenced to five years in the State Penitentiary.
 Sixteen Roman Catholic priests are now in confinement at Coblentz, on the Rhine, fo1 offences against the Prussian ecclesiastical laws, several of them being under sentence oi ten months imprisonment. .... : In the Circuit | Court, Paterson, N. J., the trial of Dr. Norton c. Ricardo, who was sued for malpractice ir | the treatment of 8 boys broken arm, whereby | the boy lost the arm and narrowly escaped with his own life was brought to close by the jurys verdict of $5,OOO for plaintiff .... ,. In spector Speight says that there are 30. 900 pro fessional thieves in New York. ."... " E. Y Parsons is the Democratic candidate for Con gress in the Fifth Kentucky District. .... Tht Peoples Convention in the First Missouri | n Stopord for