Connecticut western news., 1875-12-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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 E The failure is announoedof william Epotten
 & Co.,, linen manufacturers and bleachers, of
 Belfast, Ireland. Their liabilities are esti-
 mated at 41, S00, 900. e. The estimates for
 the fiscal year-ending June 30, 1876, amount
 to &s10, ,0sO, 769.S0, and the appropriations for
 the same period are $298, 166, 177.S7, sht 1ing
 shortage" of @16, 1864. B02.S2 ...... The steamer 0. H. Durfee, when twelve miles up Red river, burst her steam pipe and killed one
 man and scalded three. Three others jumped
 overboard and were drowned. |. The European
 grain market is stiff, but prices will not ad-
 vance before spring, owing to the large stock
 on hand ...... By an explosion in the Swaithe
 colliery, in the southern part of Yorkshire,
 England, one hundred and fifty lives were
 lost and as many more persons injured. The
 explosion was the result of careless blasting.
 A similar disaster is reported in regard to a
 coal mine near Pentyrch, Wales, by which twelve were killed and ten wounded . Egypt denies that she wanted to annex Abyssinia. |. ;. I At 0 meeting of the trustees of the bridge
 between New York and Brooklyn, now in
 course of construction, it was shown that the
 receipts have amounted to @5, So6, .45 and
 the expenditures $5,Sss, ,113 61. .. Samuel
 Hibberd, of Delaware county, Ps., with his
 hired man, named Sheridan, ordered some
 gunners from his premises, and on their de
 clining to go and indulging in insulting Ian
 guage he shot one of their dogs, when the
 gunners knocked him down and shot Sheridan,
 killing him instantly. The party then ran of,
 when Hibberd fired at them and wounded one | of them. : .s
 A Berlin special says Count von Arnim has
 refused to obey the summons to attend trial
 for treason on the plea of ill-health .. .... The
 steamer Deutschland, of the North German
 Lloyd line, from BremeRfor New York, I grounded on the Kentish Knock sands, in the
 North sea, and broke up, fifty of her passen-
 gers and crew being lost; the remainder, over
 one hundred and fifty persons, landed safely.
 ..... The Prussian government has formally
 summoned the bishop of Cologne to resign, it
 being preliminary step to legal proceedings
 to depose him. Arrangements are making at Peking to send the Chinese legations
 abroad, ministers having been appointed to
 the United States, Peru and Japan. .. .Presi-
 dent Grants message created considerable ex
 citement in Madrid, Spain. .... The Arkansas
 legislature has passed bill donating all the
 State lands in the northwestern part of the
 State for the building of 8 railway to connect
 with the Atlantic and Pacific road in Missouri.
 Gov Irwin, of California, in his inaugural
 address, urges the legislature to bring the in-
 fuence of the State Co bear on the general
 government to procure Q modification of the
 treaty with China, with view of restricting
 Chinese immigration also that the State
 should demand Q return to specie payment at
 the earliest possible moment ...... A petition
 is being largely signed in San Diego, Gal, ask.
 ing Congress to extend it's aid to the Texas
 Pacific railroad, to enable it to build a com
 peting line to the Pacific. .. Henry A. Mann,
 the ex-treasurer of Saratoga county, N. T., has
 been arrested for everlasting SIS, 900 worth
 of bonds and notes ascounty treasurer. He ie
 held in $10,0 900 bail, which he procured. .... An explosion took place in 8 coal mine al Methley, near Leeds, England, and six men
 were killed. -. The Carlist court martial has
 sentenced General Sabslls to four years' i'm.
 prisonment. .. A telegram from Detmold Germ ny, announces that Paul Frederic Erni Leopold, Trirce uf Lippe, is dead ... Luciuf
 W. Pond s former wealthy citizen of Wor
 >oesser, Mass. was arrested in San Francisco Oal., for fors gerry, on a requisition from thu
 govsrnor of Massachusetts. :. A iithographi,
 establishment, with smaller buildings, wal burned at the Five Points, New York; Ioss $20O, 900. Gen. BAbcock, private secretary of President Grant, has been indicted by i grand jury for oomplicity in tie St. Louil , whisky frauds. "a #.g E# i William Delaney, the murderer of Captair Lawrence on Cow bay. Long Island sound; las September was hanged st the Queens count.
 jail, North Hemp tead, L. I..... len. Hender son, special government counsel in the prose cu.ion of the St. Louis whisky ring, was dis charged from further service by order O Attorney General P 4errepont, and by authorit. of the President and Cabinet, on account O
 cert ain language used by Gen. Henderson it
 reference to the President in a recent trial {.
 Justlce White, of Utah, delivered a strong , charge to the jury in the George Reynold polygamy case. The jury brought in yerdic of guilty, with Recommendation to mercy. .. | Spain has sent another detachment Of troop to Cuba Advit es have been received iron Khokand that the Russian General Kauffmani I : tinue to be sent him until he has an enectiv. force of sixty thousand men. The insurgent
 still number twenty five thousand men, ,Th schooner Hopewell went down on the New ! foundland coast and seven mon were drowned The schooner Water Witch was wrecked nea . by the same night, and twelve of the twenty ! five passengers on board. were lost . The Iisa societies of Philadelphia have de termined to omit ths St. Patrick's day parade and join in the grand parade of July 4th } instead The report of the secretary O 5 the Pork Packers Association shows that thu exports of hog products from thirteen port for the month of svember aggregate 37, 100, GOO pounds net, valued at @4, 700. GOO. The ex , ports of beef products for the same time wer $7, 25O, 900 pound net, valued at $7o0, ,000.. The trotting mare American Girl won fo z William Lowell. in 1868, $4 GOO in 1869, SIS, f 500; in 1870, $10,s50; in 1871, $15, 400i il
 1872, $1s, ,450; in 1873. $14, ,oOO in 1874, @19, $50; in 1875. e, 40. =. Edward Sanderson = of Tenn teton, Mass, a member of the las State Legislature, committed suicide by hang
 ing himself. A young lawyer named Jell
 shot and fatally wounded Dr. J. T. Watson
 one of the most respected citizens of Risin; San, Ind, on account of the latter orderinl , the young man to discontinue visiting hi , daughter .. Two bo,s were killed and r third dangerously poisoned near Lowell, Mass. l by eating will parsnips, which they dug in tn 8 woods ... While the steamer Mosel was pre- : pairing to s4i, from Bremerhaven for America a box of dyn4mi 6 exploded on the wharf k,lli g sixty eight persons and wourding man : more-most of them being persons who wer , present to bid goodbye to their friends sbou A-I hn a0il ist ti,ouyhs nofna nna pfed f