Connecticut western news., 1875-02-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Interesting Items from Home and Abroa

Interesting Items from Home zand Abroad. B President MacMalon has threatened to re- | sign if excluded. from the chief command of the French army. .... The Secretary of the United States Treasury has issued 8 call for the redemption of $15,OOO, ,OOO $40 bonds of 1862. ..... A bill was ordered to the third reading in the New York State Assembly providing for the punishment of parents or guardians who ill., treat or neglect the children in their care, or permit them to beg or steal. IA bill was introduced in the New Jersey Senate for the creation of State board of health. Mr. Foster has withdrawn his name as candidate for the leadership of the Liberal party in Eng land..... The German Federal Council has empowered Prince Bismarck to conclude an extradition treaty with the United States w Great Britain has declined to send 8 repre- sentative to the St. Petersburg International Code Conference. .... A dispatch from Vienna says the-Pope has thanked the Emperor Francis Joseph for his considerate application of the Austrian ecclesiastical laws. The bill abolshing the State police and creating a State detective force passed the Massachusetts Senate |. .-- The. stomach of 8 bullock slaughtered by John Mahan in the Jersey City Abattor contained five hundred hair pins mixed with the undigested food. They were not corroded, and onlysa few of them were bent. .. .. The number of patients known to be missing since the burning of the Beaufort Female Asylum in Quebec is now stated officially to be twenty Only two bodies were discovered in the ruins: -. The new postal law in Canada makes letter postage to the TT-s1 being circulated in Pennsylvania and Virginia, and in some parts of the West, particularly in Missouri, praying the United States Congress to increase the duties on imports, and not to restore the duties on tea and coffee.
 Brooks, of Arkansas, has petitioned the United States Congress to recognize him as Governor of that State, alleging that he was duly elected for four years from the first Monday of January, 1873, and was in all re- spects eligible, but that the government of the State has been usurped by force and fraud and is now held by an armed force. ...I It is not even known what amount of deposits the aus- pended Peoples Bank of St. Louis had, but it is supposed they were about 5000, GOO, in small sums, belonging almost wholly to very poor people, numbering perhaps 2,0lO. Of the liabilities nothing has been made known yet. Nothing has been heard of Wuerpel, the miss ing. cashier, nor is there any clew to his where abouts :. The Cabinet at Washington, it is said, is strongly in favor of admitting Colorado as State. ....N .Nelse Seymour, a noted minstrel performer, died in New York " William ElIck, negro, of Brooklyn, died under an attack of hydrophobia. He was bitten last summer by coach dog as he was trying to muzzle him. The police killed the dog under the supposition that it was mad and in spite of Ellck's wishes :. It is claimed that four cargoes of native African slaves have lately been landed in Cuba Samuel Reed shot his brother Henry dead in Sheffield, III. The ball passed through his heart, killing him in- stantly. j The shooting arose from difficulty between. their hired men. ... The bill to re- duce the salaries of all employees at Washing ton who receive over $12, ,O0O ten per cent. after July has been reported favorably by the Civil Service committee. .... King Kalakaua and suite, and the United States Minister at Hawaii, sailed from San Francisco on the United States steamer Pensacola for Honolulu It is reported that the Empress of China has committed suicide from grief at the death of her husband. ... The United States Senate passed the bill to authorize the Seneca nation of New York Indians to lease lands within the Gattaraugus and Alleghany reservation and to confirm existing leases. .... Twenty persons have been arrested for participation in the recent riot at Caraquette, N. B. Eight of the prisoners were committed for trial Fifteen hundred coal miners are on strike in Indiana the operators having proposed to reduce tho r1avf frOr ipbf to tr,
 In the United States Senate MT. Morrill, of Vermont, spoke against. the reciprocity treaty with Canada. The treaty was rejected by the Senate in executive session. ;. The shaft of the Osage Company's mine in Osage City, Kansas, caught fire, and thirty-three miners narrowly escaped death ...... Congressman Tyner, of Indiana, is to be appointed assistant Postmaster-General, vice Rhoutt, to be ap- pointed Governor of Colorado. The inn prisonment of British subject has caused some disturbance at Aspinwall, and British man-of-war has been sent there to support Her Majesty's Consul who has been assaulted. x: The United States Senate passed the bill ap- propriating $25, 900 to defray the expenses of entertaining King Kalakaua It is reported that the Pope has written to Don Carlos ex- pressing sympathy for his cause, but advising him to reconsider his determination to con- tinue the war, as Catholic interests are safe in the hauds of King Alfonso. ... The Marquis of Harrington has been elected leader of the Liberal party in England. The United States Senate confirmed the nominations of A. W. Post, of Iowa, Consul at Santiago, Cape Verde ; A, J. Lespinasse, Consul at Merida
 Mexico /; and William Youngblood, Consul at Zacatocas. . A report from the adiutant- general of the United States army of the re- turns from the various States, though incom- plete, shows that the number of organized militia is 84, 724, and the number of men avail able for militia duty unorganized is 3,7O1, 977.
 The Attorney-G is of opinion that prisoners sentenced by United States consular courts cannot be legally held if brought to the United States for imprisonment Five coun- terfeiters, two alleged murderers and one hotel thief escaped from jail at St. Louis. .A dispatch from Madrid says that the national troops continue to meet with success in their operations against the Carlists . Samuel Foote, a young man of temperate habits, com
 nitted suicide in Auburn, N. Y., by taking poison This was the sixth attempt he had made on his own lfe Senator Carpenter, after his d7but, returned to Milwaukee. He was met at ,Ae depot by about one thousand citizens who detached the horses from his sleigh and drew him through the principal streets amid enthusiastic demonstrations
 One of the escaped lunatics from the Montreal asylum, named Fleury, killed his sister at Three Rivers with an ak Two more men were killed at.shaft of the Delaware, Lacka- Wanna and Western railway tunnel in New Jersey -s z.z z5 v,S , 2s ss
 Robert and Margaret Clark. husband ond