Connecticut western news., 1875-08-13
SUMMARY OF NEWS,


 and been placed Ill the hands of an assignee. The liabilities are between five and six millions, and the assets are unknown The failure is due to the depreciation of value of stocks and cotton which the firm held The loss is said to fall principally upon country banks holding the firms paper, and American travellers in Eu1 ope upon their letters of credit. .. Yellow lever IS raging among the garrison and ser wants ct Fort Balrancas, Fla. .. Prof. Jan ney, of the government expedition to the Black Hills, has written to the authorities at Washington that he has found gold in paying quantities near sufficient water He says that no matterhow valuable the mines, the principal wealth of the hills lies in it's grass lands. farms and timber. The authorities are resolved to keep out all unprivileged persons until the negoCatlons now pending are consummated.
 ... .Ihe centennial building committee make an appeal for funds. .. For some time govern ment detectives have been on the lookout for the manufacturers of spurious silver tra,.e dollars which have been circulating freely in New York. They have succeeded in arresting five men and securing $3,000 worth of coun- terfelts, with the dies and implements The operatives strike in England is becoming dan gerous. Out of one hundred and sixty-two mills at Oldham only six are running
 The publishing house of J. B. Ford & Co., widely known as the publishers of the works of tue Beecher family, and more especially of the ''Life of Christ" which was often re- ferred to in the late trial-have been obliged to call meeting of it's creditors to get an ex- | tension of time on it's liabilities. The New York Commercial Warehouse Company, with business connections chiefly with Cuba and other West India islands has suspended with habilltieh at $l, 800, Secretary Bristow has talled in the last outstanding bonds of the issue of 1862. .... Thirty-one mills have been closed at Dundee, Scotland, throwing twelve thousand persons out of employment. ... Following close upon the suspension of Dun can, Sherman & Co.,, come the reports of other failures. John Mason & Co.,, one of Philadelphia's oldest firms in the West India trade, have closed their doors liabilities un- known: The Tobacco Exchange banking com pany of Louisville, Ky, have also suspended. z..... Cyrus D. Foss, D. D., of New York has been elected president of Wesleyan College, at Middletown, Conn The Minnesota Re- T D. Pillsbury for governor. The platform recog- nizes the equal rights and just protection of ! all, men fayors & return to specie payment : calls fof tariff strictly for revenue, favorable to home industry demands that all corpora tions shall be held subject to the law-making power; approves the present national admin istration Endorses the policy of arbitration between thisand foreign countries instead of war; that it is the duty of the State to maintain tue integrity Of the common school system, . Further .tesGne y in the Mountain Meadow massacre corfoborates that already giveng Implements were found in Lees cell with which he was to attempt an escape from iail.
 A riot among twenty-two hundred strikers on the St. Gothard tunnel was put down by the Swiss troops, who killed two men and wounded several others .... The supreme court of Louisiana has decided that the acts under which the $4,000,000 and $3, GOO, 900 leyee issues were made are constitutional Most of the bonds are held in Europe. The fund ing board have been mandamused to fund them. .... Freshness and Springbok came in together winners of the Saratoga cup, mak- ing the two miles and 8 quarter in 8 56L
  in his address to the jury stated that the immi- grants were murdered by the:Indians, and that such white men as were present at the time I did so under compu,sion from savages;; that Lee held no military or church office but was simply farmer for the Indians The Prince Bishop of Breslau, in his dual capacity as & Herman and Austrian bishop, is medlating be- tween the Vatican and Prussia through the Papal Nuncio at Vienna =. Nineteen deaths from yellow fever have occurred at Barrancas Fla. .... Dr. Peckover, dentist of Cynthiana named Donally, after some high words had passed between them. Donally gave himself up to authorities, and was on his way to iail when Peckover's brother-in-law, R. H. Ridge ley, shot at and killed him. Ridgeley is in custody. .... The people of Nebraska generally corroborate Prof. Marshs charges against the I Indian commission. The steamer My Choice ran down rowboat on Lake Michigan and four men were drowned
 The telegraph reports 8 cave in at the Eureka consolidated mine at Ruby Hill, Ne braska. Five miners were killed. Two have been recovered and search is being made for the others. ... Thomas Donahue was drowned in a vault on his premises at St. Louis. Charles Prunty, James Henry, and Joseph Schlichtig, who successiyely descended into the vault to recover the body of Donohue, were overcome by four air and died before they could be res cued ...... Henri Rochefort has challenged Paul Cassagnac, the belligerent Paris ed1tor to fight duel .g.. Ex-President Johnson has l will tertalned Of his recovery. .... Upon the appli- cation of the superintendent of the Bank de- partment, the attorney-general has rendered an opinion which is adverse to the legality of investment in the District of Columbia 3. 65 bonds by the savings banks of the State John Smith, negro murderer, was hanged at Charleston, s. c. He confessed his crime " Reports from eighty of the ninety-two counties of Indiana show that the crops are heavily damaged by the late rains, and will I not yield fifty per cent. The wheat has l sprouted in. the shocks The accounts from l Illinois and Ohio are about the same Heavy rains prevail ill Missouri, Arkansas, Nebraska 1 and Kentucky and much anxiety is felt for the crops ...... A tornado passed through HarFeysburg, Ind, tearing houses to pieces and causing destruction. Five women were killed. .... Inquiry having been made at the Post-office department whether newspapers printed in one place and issued or published I from another place can be sent from the print ing office at the rate of two cents per pound, the same as from publication offices, the de- partment decides that the office of issue is the office of publication, and not where the paper may be printed; and that all such publications must be sent to, the place of issue before they can pass through the mails at publishing ] ,ato rIl,o t;I,I G