Connecticut western news., 1874-12-04
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Tilden, 7,623 Blk, A, S71. Tilden's majority, 42,752. ..T official vote of the State of New Jersey gives Bedel 97,254; Halsey, 83,945; in 1872 Greeley but 76 456, and Grant 91,6 ,656 The Congressional vote of the State is as follows First District-Sinnickson Rep, 14, | POS; Albertson, Dem, 13,O19. Sinnickson's majority in 1874, 1,189; Hazelton's, ill 1872, 6,364. Second District Rep, 13,- 977; Smith, Dem., 13,0O9. Dobbins's majority in 1874, 968; do. in 1872, 2,4O5. Third Dis trict-Ross, Dem., 5,684; Clark, Rep., 13,643. Ross's majority in 1874, 2,041 Clark's in 1872, 2,176. Fourth District-Hamilton, Dem., 14,
 554; Ploze, Rep, 9,941. Hamilton's majority in 1874, 4,633; do. in 1872, 2, ASA. Fifth Dis trict-Cutler, Dem., 11,676; Phelps, Rep, Ill., 672. Cutters majority in 1874, 4; Phelps's, in 1872, 2,715 Sixth District-Teese, Dem., 13,- 876; Ward, Rep., 13,76S Teeses majority in 1874, 108; Wards, in 1872, 5,658. Seventh District -Hardenberg ,Dem., 13, 192 Scudder, Rep., 8,272. Hardenberg's majority in 1874 3,920; Scudder's, in 1872, 1,269. The total of the vote in Illinois for State Treasurer was as follows: Thomas 8. Ridgway, Rep, 161, ,075; Charles Carroll, Den., 126 646 David Gore, Ind. Reform, 73,885; total vote, 361,6O6;
 
 Minneapolis, Minn., two men went into saloon and called for drinks. They told the bartender to charge them, when he drew revolver and ehot one of them dead...... Lieut.. Overton, of the United States army, with one hundred men, had severe fight with the Cheyenne Indians in Texas. Without losing 6 man, Lieut.. Overton whipped the Indians, killing and wounding 8 number, and capturing the village with two little starved white captives, young girls aged five and seven years, named Germon, whose father, mother, eldest sister, and brother were recent ly massacred in Kansas while going to Colorado as settlers. Two remaining sisters, aged thir- teen and fifteen years, are yet held by the h. dians, doomed to worse than death. . The strike of the longshoremen in New York em- braced over ten thousand men, who have been employed on the docks in loading and unload l ing vessels.
 | The investigation by the grand jury in New | York city into the McKenna homicide has resulted in the indictment of Coroner Crocker for murder in the first degree. Coroner Crocker has been committed to the Tombs. | McKenna was killed on election day in 8 dis | turbance. .... An explosion of the boiler of the tug Lilly took place in New York harbor, | and five persons were killed . . The Iceland CTS in the United States like Alaska, and the commissioners will recommend their country men to locate there. ... A letter from Hon. | Mir. Disraeli announces that the English government has resolved to equip and send out another Polar expedition. ...The Boston national banks, in their last statement, show their capital to be $50, ,050, ,000. ....The United States army department has ordered clothing to be distributed among the Nebraska sufferers by the grasshopper plague. ..... The Philadel- | phia Troop of Light Horse lately celebrated | their one hundredth anniversary they having been organized in 1774 ....Of 234 deaths in l New York, 13O were from diphtheria This 1 dreadful scourge is almost epidemic in the | city. . The total vote in New York State at the last election was 794, ,2O2. Tilden's majority over Dix is, by the official vote, 50, 4O2-over Dix and Clark, 8,612.
 | The newspaper publishers of Connecticut | have adopted resolutions fixing the additional | charge on subscriptions, to cover postage, at | ten cents year for weeklies and sixty cents | for dailies. . The Sultan of Turkey has pro- mulgated decree forbidding the Governor of Syria from carrying into execution his threat to suppress all Protestant schools in his pro- vince. Thirty-two of the Turks charged with the recent murders of Montenegrins, in the province of Albania, have been convicted and each sentenced to twenty years imprisonment. ..... The Polar exploring expedition to be fitted out by the British government will con- sist of two steamers. Captain Markham, of the royal navy, will command one of them. The expedition will start for the Arctic regions next May. Lord Derby, of England, re- | plying to 8 deputation, promised that the government would address 8 friendly remon- strance to the Porte in favor of the prosecuted Christians in Syria. .. The report of the dis ! covery of g Socialist conspiracy in Russia is officially denied. It is probable that the report originated from the appointment of discip- linary committee to inquire into the recent turbulent conduct of the students of the medical academy there.
 Every one of the employees of the New Jersey Central Railroad Company was given l turkey by Superintendent Riker on Thanks l giving day Ut is estimated that the vintage in California this year will reach 5000, ,O0O gallons last year it was less than 100000.
 ..... The Nevada Legislature will stand Senate Republicans, IS; Democrats, 2. As sembly-Democrats, IT; Republicans, 31 h. dependents, 3. The Republican majority on |. joint ballot is 22. .... The employing coopers l of New York, about twenty firms, de- clared their determination rot to yield to the 1 journeymen's demands. Four of the crew of fishing vessel were drowned off Newcastle, N. H., while returning to their vessel in 8 small boat Another of the party was res cued All of the party were intoxicated. ... Divers at work removing the freight from the wreck of the steamer Empire at New Orleans, found the cabin broke loose, and the bodies entangled in it swept away. Among these included the Kemper family, all the other women, cabin boys, pantry men, walters, etc. A diver who went down into the hull reports that it was much broken, the hog chains being wrenched completely out of the boat, leaving large hole, which must have been under water, and caused the vessel with her heavy cargo, to sink almost immediately.
 The report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue of the United States shows the follow l ing results The aggregate receipts from all sources, exclusive of duty upon the capital, circulation and deposits of national banks and collections made by contract under the act of May 8, 1872, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1874, were $1O2, ,644, ,746.9 .9s exceeding his esti- mate by $2,644, 746.98. The report shows the total production of spirits during the fiscal year from materials other than fruit was 68,- sO5, STA gallons. Total production from fruit, 766, ,68S gallons. Aggregate productions from all sources, 69, 572, ,062 taxable gallons. During the last fiscal year 2,88O fruit distilleries were registered and 2,s41 operated; and 7O9 distii- leries, other than fruit, were registered and l 665 oDAratad The recainta from all ao11rcas