Litchfield enquirer., 1874-11-12
NEWS or rHE WEEK.
FOREIGN.


 of other countries.
 The damp atmosphere has injuriously affected the wheat cbS D in England.
 An International Catholic Conference is to be held at London to support the doc urine of Infallibifity
 Frdnce.-In the elections held Sunday for members of the French Assembly, two Republicans and one Bonapartist were probably successful.
 New elections to fill vacancies in the French Assembly are. to lake place Nov.29 President MacMahon is likely to advise the French Assembly to organize the Sep tennate, and afterward dissolve. i :l E.
 There are important diplomatic difficult ies with Spain. GermGny.-The Emperor has signed A decree for representative Assembly in Alsace-Lorraine Two journals of Berlin are to be pro- secuted for the publican of official docu- ments. Y z
 Austria. The GoSernment has urged the Porte to hasten reply to it's last note sin regard to the treaty mixing powers of Roumania. The Porte demands the ob- servance of the treaty of Paris.
 Spain.-The Republicans in Irun have been reenforced t
 The CZar is likely soon to recognize the government of Marshal Serrano
 Operations against the Carlists have been resumed. One hundred and fifty Carlists from Estella have surrendered to the Republicans.
 It is said that Don Carlos has himself retired into France.
 Dennlark.-The Government has re- quested the Rigsdad to abstain for the present, from .interpellation about the Schleswig question: $E .t
 4Asi0.-An effort at conciliation between Yakoob Khan and the Ameer of Afghan istan has been made by the Viceroy of h. dia. t1Es
 The troubles between China and Japan have been settled.
 Canada.-There was a meeting of French Canadians at Quebec to protest against the excution ofLepine Implicated i'll the Northwest insurrection.
 South America The Argentine insur- gent fleet has appeared before Buenos Ayres, and there is prospect of naval engagement between the vessels of the | insurgents and those of the Government | of the Republic. ....lE DOMESTIC.
 The small pox is still on the increase al Montreal. -. s*h Several thousand acres of woodland or the mountains in Bergen county, N. J., have been burned during the past week Kate Field makes her debut at Booths theater, Saturday night in the character of Peg Wellington.
 The Protestant Episcopal General Con vention closed it's session on the 3d inst. after clearing the calendar and receiving the pastoral letter of the Bishops. A serious riot occurred in Enfaula, Ala. on election day. in which eight negroes were killed and large number of whites and blacks wounded.
 Attorney General Williams has decided that Gems. Howard and Ballock are civil ly liable for public moneys not accounted for. t# Senator Thurman was serenaded at his l residence in Washington, Thursday night The Committee of Seventy of New Or leans have sent a protest to President Grant against the occupancy of the State House by troops during the sessions of the Returning Board.
 The annual report of the Fifth Auditor of the treasury shows a decrease in the cost of collecting the internal revenne fo1 the present year of over $1 ,OOO, ,O0O. Destructive forest fires are raging il | New Hampshire.
 A New York man has been accused by h1s son of throwing his wife eAfa roof o 8 tenement and killing her.
 A political fight lbetween negroes il Houma, Ea., resulted in the killing o one man and the wounding of another. Prof. O.oO. Marsh was at Fort Laramie l on Sunday en route to the bone region. 1 Gen. Sherman and Lieut.. Gen. ,Sheida1 have presented their annual reports to tn, War Department. aaf
 Vice President Wilson, in an interview on the results of the election, said tha the third term question had been settled for hundred years.
 Fortr thousand people in Kansas and Nebraska are now or shortly will be il need of the necessaries of life, says St Louis dispatch,
 A. Y. Zachos was married at New York Monday noon, and concluded the mar riage festivities at six o'clock by emptyine three bullets from a revolver into his head and body. ..