Connecticut western news., 1875-09-24
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Interesting Items from Homo and Abroad.
 General Kaufrnan's army of Russians has defeated force of thirty thousand Khokand rebels and captured large amount of arms and other material .... Advices from Turkey are to the effect that order has been restored in Bosnia and nearly 50 in Herzegovina. =. The attorney y-general has instructed the district attorney and United States marshal in the disturbed district of Mississippi to do all in their power to preserve order .... Fifteen thousand animals are affected by the foot and mouth disease in Dorsetshire, England. ..... An extensive Indian outbreak is reported in eastern Nevada and western Utah. A number of settlers and miners have been killed. The women and children are being removed to 8 place of safety. Troops and volunteers are gong to the scene. .... The stallion Planet, well-known throughout the country, is dead.
 The experiment. of shipping peaches to Europe failed on account of scarcity of ice. =. John Williams shot and killed David and Thomas vromansat Lowell, Neb The trouble originated about some land over which they have been at law all summer. Williams gave himself up to the authorities. ... A young man named Killam, of Paupack, Pike county
 Pa., while hunting recently had both hands blown off at the wrists by the accidental dis charge of his gun Our mail service costs S15, 723, 868.62 per annum ..... The city of Boston advertises for thirty-year gold loan of $1 ,OOO, 900 at five per cent, for the purpose of increasing the city's water supply. ...... Frederick Thornton, umpire of the claims be- tween this government and Mexico, has dis missed claims 1S9, IA, IA, 145, 149 and 1s6 against Mexico, as thoe-oharges were not proven.3E Frederick A. Newton agt. Mexico, for robbery and maltreatment by Federal troops of Mexico. Award was made for $2, 900 Mexican gold, without interest, and $1,oOO Mexican gold, with interest, at six per cent. per annum, from Oct 8, 1858.
 The Republicans Of New York, in convention at Saratoga, nominated the following ticket {: For Secretary of State, Frederick W. Seward, of New York for Controller, Francis B. Spin ner, of Herkimer; for State Treasurer, E. A. Merritt, of St. Lawrence for Attorney Gen. eraL George F. Danforth, of Monroe; for State Engineer and Surveyor, Oliver H. P. Cor nell, of Tompkins; for Canal Commissioner, William T. Tnsley, of Wayne for State Prison Inspector, Benoni I. Ives, of Cayuga The platform declares that the welfare of the ooun- | try requires . just, generous and forbearing national policy in the Southern States firm refusal to use military power, except for pur- poses clearly. defined in the Constitution, and the local enforcement of national authority by those only who are in sympathy with such a policy, and will heartily support it; demands honesty, economy and efficiency in every branch of national OF State administration, and summary exposure, prosecution and punish .ment of wrong 7doers; the offenders in the scanI manag cement should be brought tospeedy
 punishment that the Republican party has,
 within the last four years, provided for the
 payment of $20, ,000, ,000 of the public debt and
 practically extinguished the general State in debtedness, and by this action has made il
 certain that the tax for the next year will be
 reduced about $5,o0O, 900 j; that the further in-
 fation of the currency, under any pretense
 whatever, would be 8 public calamity, The
 interests of honest industry and the common
 welfare demand the speediest return to specie
 payments ; that the taxation should be review
 ed that it's burden may fall on all alike recog
 nizes the Presidents declaration that he is moi
 candidate for renomination, and opposes third -termism; demands the unqualified main
 tenance of the public school system, and iti
 support by equal taxation, and opposes all sec
 tartan appropriations. .. The Democratic State
 Convention at Milwaukee, Wis.,, renominatei
 Gov. Taylor and the entire ticket. The plat
 form demands preservation of public credit
 honest payment of the national debt; rigit
 economy in State and Federal administrations
 more and cheaper facilities for transportation
 within and without the State; completion O
 the Fox and Wisconsin rivers improvement sound currency ln coin or it's equivalent; tarit
 for revenue only, levying higher duties upol
 articles of necessity than upon articles of lux ury no sympathy for men who vote or apolo
 gize for Credit Mobilier corruptions in Congres
 or elsewhere the sovereignty of the State and the people as to powers not delegate
 to the Federal government or prohibited t the States the supremacy of civil authorit in time of peace, and liberty equality and fra ternity for all men under the law; freedom 0
 religion and opinion the elevation of labo,
 and it's permanent and positive protection i all it's rights, without injustice to capital; an
 the perpetual subordination of the interests c
 party to principles and to the good of tn l whole people.
 l The Chinese government has appointed tw officials as joint ambassadors to Great Britain The settlers about Portage La Prair and Westbourne, Manitoba, Canada, are cl; moring for the removal of the Sioux Indian to the reserve. Since the murder of one their number the band has moved furth' Q west, and now hang about Westbourne, ente a ing the houses of settlers and terrifying wome r and children into giving them everything the e demand. =. The Argonauta crew of Berge 7 Point, N. J., beat the Atalanta crew of State r Island in four-oared race over 8 two-mi t course. The time was fifteen minutes a1 !, thirty-seven and oneSquarter seconds =.
 U Advices from Deer Island, Charlotte count e N. B., are that this season is the du1lest y the fishery business for twenty years. ... III :, N. J., was destroyed by an explosion and fir 7 , and one man killed and dozen wounde Q The fire extended to an adjoining building al property to thevalue of $175, 900 was destroy, n ..... Professional burglars entered the ban > ing house of F. B. Hancock & Co.,, at Ora v vile, Ky., and carried off $34, ,460, consisti1 l. of $25,000 In United States bonds, $6, 900 )f legal tenders $2,000 in fractional curren l. and $1, 460, in gold coin. ... Capt. John n Jones, of New York, while gazing at Niaga E Falls with some friends at Prospect Park, sa
 "good-bye," and jumped over, in sight
 hundreds of people.
 The convention of the Democracy of Pen 'e sylvania, held at Erie, nominated Cyrus ,u Pershing for Governor. The platform arraig al the leaders of the party which, has ruled t ~ nation and State for years and demands tn ,od immediate removal; charges that the und ;s multiplication of public officers and the inor 10 nate increase of the salaries and emolumel