Connecticut western news., 1874-12-11

the body of Mrs. Steep, found drowned in the Welland Canal. Tho jury returned verdict that the deceased came to her death by vio- lence at the hands of her husband " Tho wife of the murdered man Poulin, now under sentence of death, gave birth to a male child in the Bathurst, N B., jail. Gallan before his execution, confessed to the paternity of the child. Mrs. Poulin has been sentenced to be hanged.
 Smallpox broke out in the deaf and dumb asylum in New York city, and many of the in mates were stricken with the disease. ..... A fight occurred near Shaners, Pa, between Italian miners and citizens, in which four Italians were killed aud several wounded. .
 It is believed in Washington that there will be no Congressional action on the financial ques- tion this winter. Diphtheria still continues its ravages in New York, aud many deaths occur weekly from it. The citizens of North Carolina are to have a centennial celebration of their own iii Charlotte, Mecklinburg county, on May 20 1876. .... Michigsns sIofficial census, just completed, shows that the State now has population of ,336 sos. being an. increase of 152 526 since 1870. .... The cash value of corn received in Chicago thus far ill 1874 is $21 ,000, 900, against $14 1000, 900 for the whole of 1873. King Kalakana King of the Sandwich Islands, was received, on landing at San Fran cisco, by military escort. Salutes were fired from the forts and from the government steamers .... In the trotting race in San Francisco, between Judge Fullerton and Occ- dent, mile heats, best three in five for a purse of $6,000, Occident won in 2:19, 2:25, 2:2O4 .... terrible slaughter of human lives WAS per petrated at tho settlement of Indian Tickle. Labrador, two whole families, with the excep- ton of young girl, being the victims. The Indians had been stealing and were whipped by the authorities. They committed the mur- ders ill revenge for the whipping ....A young girl was sent to prison for larceny in New York; she having stolen goods at the request of her lover. She was only fourteen years of age. e.... Lowell, the poet, has de lined the Russian Ministry, rendered him by the United States.
 In Brazil the people have risen againe! foreigners, and de?lared that they must leave the country ..... Five maeked men wont to 6 country store on the Petit Jean. river ill Yell county, Arkansas. They shot and killed tho proprietor and robbed the store. They then robbed 8 trading boat lying in the river, and killed sheriff who was in pursuit of them. Ono of the jurors in the trial of Taylor, who was acquitted of the murder of Mackoy at Newcastle, Del, says that if the jury had been boiled on the rendition of the verdict four of their number would have refused their assent to it. After fasting ffty-eight hours they agreed to remain silent while the others gave the verdict, but if asked individually, w. uld have disagreed with the ma ajority .... Herr Sigl, editor of the Vdte,Ldnd newspaper has been sentenced in c0ntundcjdnt to ten months Imprisonment for asserting that Kull- mans attempt on the life of Prince Bismarck was sham plot concocted by the police .. At tho timo of the sudden death of Mayor Havemeyer, of New York, who dropped dead in his office, the suit against him by John Kelly, for libel, was progressing. It terminated sadly Mayor Havemeyer was seventy years of ago, and was serving his third term as Mayor when he died. 70. The United States government work on Fort Adams has been discontinued. An effort is being made to have the Brooklyn post-oftice discontinued the business of Brooklyn to be done at the New York office.