Connecticut western news., 1875-12-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
What is Doing in the old World and tn,
 New.


 Guibord's grave has been declared ,inconse- crated ground by the bishop of Montreal. 2. A treaty of peace, friendship, maritime con- merce and exsradition between Spain and Santo Domingo has been signed. ..... British troops have shelled and captured two native villages where the British resident, Mir. Birch, was murdered in Malaya. .. John Brown, colored, was arrested near Fort Valley, Ga., in the act of attempting to commit an outrage on 8 highly respectable young lady. He knocked out some of her teeth in the struggle. and otherwise maltreated her. Subsequently & band of disguised men took him from the custody of the she eriff and hung him. The forts of the Mor1nons to inaugurate church in Canada meet with considerable opposition by the people; every meeting so far having been disturbed. Allen Gwynn, colored, living near Huntingdon, Tenn, having learned that Milton Roney and Frank Patterson, two ex-penitentiary convicts, had arranged to steal his horses, Gwynn collected posse of white men to watch his promises. The two outlaws came as expected, and when halted fired on the posse, who returned the fire,
 
 Sherman's report of the army shows that there are 1,54O officers and 24,031 enlisted men.
 The steamer Amerique, of the General Transatlantic line, was disabled at sea by the breaking of her shaft. Her passengers and mail were taken of by the steamer China.
 Rebellious Nptschaks recently captured the town of Namanghan, Khokand, after General Kaufman had left. General Scabelef returned and defeated the Kptschaks, who fled, leaving $500 dead on the cid. .. The Herzegovinian insurgents captured an important fort which commanded Zubci, with all it's garrison. The insurgents also occupied several strong posi- tions in the neighborhood of Piva. Fol ty students have been expelled from Princeton College for iiisubordination in belonging to 8 prohibited secret society. By the destruc- ion by fire of Jones' brewery, in New York, three hundred men were thrown out of en- ployment and 8 loss of $500, 900 entailed on the owners . .. The report of the ordnance bureau gives the aggregate strength of the militia of the country as 1, ,724 organized and 3, 7O1, ,077 unorganized ...... Cgrille Dion beat
 
 lizards for $1, GOO and the championship. Dion made 6OU points to Daly's 557. A locomotive and five freight cars went through an open draw at Rutherford Park, N. J., on the Erie road, owing to the signals not being given. The train hands jumped and avoided injury.
 Several fishing boats were lost off the coast of Fifeshire, England, and sixteen fishermen are known to have been drowned. Fourteen more are missing. ... ..The governor of Massa- chusetts pardoned four convicts Thanksgiving day, according to the time-honored custom. ......A coal oil lamp exploded iA the bedroom of Mrs. Charlotte Chew, at Camden, N. J., and set the carpet on fire. Her daughter Laura sprang out of bed to give the alarm when her night dress caught the flames and the young lady sprang out of 8 second-story window, receiving injuries from which she died in few minues. Mrs. Chew also died from the effects of her burns =. A lunatic named lille, confined in the hospital at Gettys- burg, Pa., killed 8 woman named Beatty, who entered his room to clean it. He choked her and then jammed broomstick into her brain. ... The Quebec government has decided to send five hundred barrels of flour to the people of the Magdalen Islands who are without their winter stock of provis- ions, owing to the wrecking few days ago of the vessels which were taking the same to the islands.
 The Paris Moniteur says there is no longer doubt that England has an eye on Egypt and the Paris Temps declares that the purchase of the Suez canal shares gives England the virtual suzerainty Of that country " The funeral services over the remains of Vice President Wilson were conducted by the chap lain to the Senate, Rev. pr. Rankin pronoun- cing an eloquent eulogy. The casket was conveyed by rail to Baltimore, where it lay in State in the city hall for a short time, . Ben Edwards and Oscar Freeman, both colored murderers, were hanged at Sardis, Miss, in the presence of about four thousand people, three-fourths of whom were colored The schooner Sunshine was overturned off the Columbia river, California, and forty people lost. .... Three small boys were buried in 8 sand pit in Brooklyn, N. Y., and when they were excavated life was extinct .. A. Har- riman, of Auburn, Me-, won the fifty-mile walk against G. F. Avery, of Bangor, who gave out on the thirty-eighth mile. Harri- mans time was ten hours and twenty-six minutes. ....New York city milk dealers have raised the price to twelve cents per quart. ... A colored man and woman were hanged at Monroe, La., in the presence of five thousand people, for the murder of the woman's hus- band. ..... Chief-Justice Waite declines to allow his name to be used in connection with the Presidency, believing it inconsistent with his office to be concerned in politics.
 Ex-Gov. James E. English, of New Haven, Conn.,, has been appointed by Governor Inger- soil to fill the unexpired term of the late United States Senator Ferry . Secretary Chandler has offered E. s. Toby, of Boston, the office of commissioner of Indian affairs. ...... Chavez, lieutenant of the late bandit Vasquez, was shot and instantly killed near Arizona, while attempting to escape ar rest ..... The Ontario (Oan) manufacturers have adopted'resolutions calling for the taxa tion of American farm products, inasmuch as Canadian products are taxed on crossing to this side also that the customs be more strictly looked after The officers of the lost steamer Pacific were blamed by coroners jury for poor discipline. Col. Des Anges, New York custom house official, concerned in the revenue frauds on smuggled silks, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment and pay fine of $10,000.. .... .Le Nord, the Russian organ, says that the purchase by England of the Suez canal stock will not affect the peace of Europe. ..... It is stated that, with a view to preventing Austrian intervention, Mon tenegro has proposed to servia an offensive and defensive alliance in favor of Herzegovina and if the offer is accepted both countries will take joint action in April. ... The roofs ot the Chauncey and Grand Tunnel mines, in the Wyoming valley, Pa., caved in, entailing 6 loss of over $1OO, 1000, besides throwing an im. roansa ,,,,ual,or if .,ai,,ors or,t os .u,,.lz