Connecticut western news., 1875-02-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Maine Senate failed by a vote of 15 to 15, to. pass the bill substituting imprisonment
 for life for the death penalty. ... The Little Tariff bill, which has just become law, con- tains among other provisions one presented
 and urged by the Hon. Leonard Meyers, of Pennsylvania, repeating the stamp tax on. medicinal preparations. The tax on proprietary or patent medicines remains as heretofore. ...
 Bishop Clarke, of Rhode Island, has published an appeal to all of the Episcopal Churches in his diocese requesting that during Lent 8 collection be taken for the relief of the Kan- sas and Nebraska sufferers. ... Canada has ap
 pointed three gentlemen to act as commissioners at the Centennial. "A brakeman named Gaynor, of the New York and New Haven railroad, while engaged in adjusting switch at South Norwalk, caught one of his feet in . frog, and as he was unable to extricate himself the train ran him down and cut his body in two <. ... There were Ssix hundred deaths in Now York city for the week ending February 9th, against six hundred and four the previous week. .. The Boston Pilot. states that the Pope has raised the dioceses of Boston, Phila- delphia, Milwaulsee and Santa Fee to the dignity of archdioceses, and their respective bishops to that of archbishops. .... The second branch of the Baltimore council has expelled 8 member by the name Of Staylor for receiving 8 bribe of $50. ..4. Gov. Bedle of New Jersey, haying announced himself as unequivocally opposed to special legislation, has vetoed two private bills. ..The report of the Comptroller lsof Currency up to the 31st of December last shows 2,O27 national banks, with aggregate capital of $495, s02. 4s1, surplus fund of $780, 4s5, ,641, individual deposits of $6S2, s55, 066
 bank notes outstanding, $332 204S, ,9S7, and liabilities of $1, 902, 408, 455; their loans and discounts amounted to $955, s61, 1897, and they held United States bonds to the amount of SAP, 9s0, 300 j. .. During the recent cold weather man named Michael Kelly was frozen to death on the Newark (N. J.) meadows .. IA man Nyas fined $8.uO in Hampstead, b. for defing the floor of the Methodlst Clpirch with tobacco juice... \. H.... :. The New York Butter | and Cheese Exchange have adopted resolutions calling for the deepening of canals to seven festaa provided by law.
 Another. attempt was. made to, revive the frankings privilege in the United States Con I gress .. .. It is understood that the Canadian government intends tol extend the Pacific rail way in the direction of Bate Inlet as soon as possible. It is bound, as soon as the surveys in British Columbia are completed, to spend at l leasts$2, ,000,0 year on the road in that pro
 vince, and to complete the line from Lake Superior to Esquimault by, 1890. SC. A boy in New York, while ldefe nding his mother, shot and fatally wounded his father. 70. MT. E. Perrault, of Montreal, has been appointed Secretary to the American Centennial Exposi- 1 tfon commission . Senators Macdonald and l DeCesmos and Mir. Bunster arrived at Ottawa, Ontario, from San Francisco in seven days, I and from British Columbia in ter. days and half altogether !. :. The widow of the late Commander Cushing sent to Alfred Iverson, of Georgia, 6 sword presented to that gentle man by citizens of Columbus, Ga., when he vas a lieutenant of United States cavalry, be- fore the war, but which had been captured by Commander Cushing in one of his raids.
 Cyrus P. Jones, wealthy farmer and politician of Illinois, living near Pontiac, was assassinated by an unknown party at his home. 2:. '. United States Minister Washburne, in a dispatch from Paris, denies that he received $1O00O as bribe from the Texas and E1 Paso road for getting it's bonds on the Paris Bourse. ..... President Grant has approved the act making appropriations for Notifications and other works of defense for the fiscal year end ! ing June 30, l876. ..Senator-eleet Jones, of |. Florida, was born in Ireland in 1884. and came to the United States when ten years old. In b1854 he took up his residence iu Pensacola, | where he has since resided. He is 8 self-made man .e. .., The French steamer Montezuma, coffee laden, went ashore at Great Inagua Island and is total loss. ..... During the Franco German war from August 9, 1870, to January 19, 1871, there were killed and wounded 126, 942 French and 112, 1906 German troops. In New York saloon, poor drunken man was thrown out of doors, struck the curb stone as he fell, and died from the injuries received
 The United States House committee or foreign affairs has agreed to report a bill pro l hibiting the importation of Chinese into the | prohibiting the sending Chinese convcts into 4 the United States. :. The supreme court o1 Massachusetts has rendered decision in the case ofaJesse H, Pomeroy, the boy murderer
 overriding the exceptions and ordering judg
 nent on, the, verdict. Pomeroy will, therefore
 be sentenced to death by hanging .s.s The United States House Appropriation committed decided to appropriate $500,000 to defray the governments expenses in the Philadelphia exhibition, which is to pay. for the United States building to be erected, and for all tht outlay attending the government portion o1 the exposition. The amount asked for wal about $900, 900. .... O.. l.. Messier, Q grocer
 of Manchester, N. H., committed suicide by | 4. l.
 self in a room of 8 hotel. The act was caused by financial trouble B.. rSayigny, the distin
 gashed Utrsmontane, is dead: j. ;;! "A grand jury in Chicago has indicted all the papers there for publishing lottery advertisements
 ...,. A resolution was adopted in the New York Legislature calling on Congress to extend the time in which soldiers are required to settle on homestead lands :. "A b oy was burned tt death and another seriously injured by a fir, in London, Ontario. ..-ua. ..4"o ... Reports from, the Panama Surveying Expe
 dit'on announce the favorable progress of th' work ..,.. The cold wave, which passed ove
 New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine witt thermometer showing from twenty-two te thirty six degrees, below zero, was the coldes
 weather yet experienced in that section Al Italian newspaper ill Florence has published correspondence between Bismarck and Mazzin aI which seriously duplicates the latter in a1 { attempt to aid the former during the Franco
 Prussian war by rebellion in Italy. .Samue
 Hooper, representing the Fourth Congressiona
 District of Massachusetts in the United State
 House of Representatives, died at Washington
 A fourteen-ton cheese is to be one of Ohio
 contributions to the Philadelphia Centennial
 Capt. Ward. who died, leaving $4, 800, GOO Y was married in his shirt sleeves and took hi wedding trip in yawl boat, being too poor t.
 do any better. The bill for equalizing sol II diars' hOrlnfias l1aasad tha IInifad 2taton