Connecticut western news., 1875-01-15
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Interesting Items from Home nnd Abroad.

i Interesting Items from Home nnd ADrOad.
 A man calling himself A Bailey, and claiming i to be extensively engaged in crushing quartz ] in California, arrested in Montpelier, Ys., i on charge Of swindling. He hsd oeen opera ! ting in several cities in New England, generally
 purchasing machinery and giving bogus drafts,
 and effectig loans his cheeks. His opera
 tions amount to 9l0 GOO ...A serious collision
 occurred on the East river, New York. during
 fog, between a ferry boat and cattle boat, at
 a time when the ferry Doais ciOw,ied ..iiE.ss
 people returning to their homes from their o-~ ---- ;s.-t4,,tIv EiIIed. and
 several fatally injured one of the inju cd men dying shortly after the accident. Mir.
 Bverlv. who was killed by Gov. Warmoth in
 New Orleans, received six wounds, any one of
 which was fatal. Patrick Wallace, a drunken
 laborer of Willianisburgh. N. Y., murdered
 his wife Margaret by knocking her brains out
 with hickor? stick. .... The survivors only
 of the wreck of the burned ship Cospatrick
 were picked up. These were the second mate,
 named Henry McDonald, and two sailors. They
 had been ten days drifting about in the boat
 During greater portion of this time they sus
 tained their lives by drinking human blood and
 eating human flesh taken from the bodies of
 others, their companions, who died in the boat
 .... The late Gerrit Smith will long be
 remembered for his generous gifts TO the de-
 serving He inherited from his father 1,500,-
 900 acres of land, and this he gave with liberal hand Hewaslborn in Utica, N. Y., in
 1797.
 Additional details of the burning of the
 Cospatrick only increases the horror of that
 m t1 lo,- rit1
 such rapidity that the vessel was burned from
 end to end before half hour had elapsed after the flames were discovered. Of course the five
 hundred people on board-for there was nearly ! that number-were readily panic stricken and , it will strike the reader as being awful l thing tbat only two boats, carrying thirty per sons each, got away from the ship. These t staid by the burning essel~from the midnight l of Nov. 17 until the 18th, when tho wreck sunk. Out of these sixty persons only three lived to tell the tale of their woes and suffer- , ing. George Reilly was convicted of burglary in the second degree, in breaking into the
 miser Luther Bryant's rooms in New York, from which $123,000 worth of money and valu- f. ables wore stolen. He was sentenced to ten . years in State prison. Two men, captured
 in Pulaski county, Ark, few weeks ago for robbing store and boat in Yell county, were convicted in the Circuit Court at Little Rock, l and sent to the penitentiary for five ,ears The ! men belonged to & gang of four who are sup Z posed to be the Gadshillers1: 1:. Mrs: Cronk, of l Wanaque, N. J., who was charged with killing 7 James Lukes "a. neighbor; who frequently offered her insults liaA been indicted for man <. slaughter. The Passaic county prosecute,
 Io opfo kr fr
 indct for murder in tho first degree, but with , out success. ... Commodore Vanderbilt hat . purchased from Mr. B. Waterman, of New
 Jersey, the bay trotting gelding Boy for s6oOO
 .... The election in Newburyport, Mass, fol if Mayor in place of Gushing, elected and de IF clined, resulted in the choice of the Hon. B. F n Atkinson, Republican, over Eliphalet Grif6n IS Democrat, by 46 majority in total vote O n 1852. j. An explosion occurred in coal mine nea II Evanston, Wyoming Territory, by which eigh n persons were killed. =. Mayor Sawyer, acting
 as counsel for the families of four men wh h were killed ty the falling of the bucket o n shaft No. of the Delaware, Lackawanna, am e Western railroad tunnel is to sue the company 's laying damages at $1O0, 900. ... Two notoriou
 
 u Alexander, who murdered man named Whit ', at Springfield last October, were killed nea T Okmulgee, Indian Territory, by detective York
 of Springfield. Another notorious outlaw
 named Kinch Vest was mortally wounded. Il On and &fter the 1st day of January 1875, a F printed matter of the second class in tn ~ United States destined for Canada will b ~ treated as though it was destined for tn n United States, the arrangement with the Cana ,s dian postal authorities being that it shall b l. delivered there free of charge. All matter c " this class coming into our offices from Canad ot will be delivered by this department free C of charge. The same rule also applies to transfer
 newspapers and postal cards. On and afte ar Feb 1, 1875, the single. letter rate to Canad ,e will be three cents, prepayment obligatory, an S. all letters received from Canada will be d. h. liyered free of charge. Pierola, the Peruvia k; insurgent, has been defeated by Presider O. Pardo. He fled to Bolivia, and many of hi ae followers were captured. .. .. .Ex-G Governor Wa
 moth, of Louisiana, charged with murder in tn ts killing of D. c. Byerly in New Orleans, was ac 70 quilted .,.Spiallpox of0theimost maignat of type is raging among the Indians at Pickonocl le on the Gatineau river. The bodies of nin y
 Indians are ina spitiful state of destitution, tn ,b male portion being either dead or having le nv the place Near Port Jervis, on train ys the Erie railroad, soldier named John Nagl as just discharged from the United States arm, e. was robbed by " "three-card monte" gambler s, of $450, the result of five years savings.
 at The deposits, in the savings banks in Mass, m chusetts increased over 100000 during tt Ill last year, making the total $217, 452, 12O.84. 4 Jeremiah Post, a farmer, of East Meade, al Long Island, went to New York with Q load
 hay. On his return he stopped at Hempstea ut and took several drinks. In the morning h IF wife, alarmed at his absence, went to the bar iu There she saw the wagon overturned, ar Ill found MT. Post under the wagon, his nec s oS broken, Tho wagon was loaded with slab ao and had been upset by piles of stones =. . Since the famine set in in Asia Minor 50, ,0t ,2 l persons have migrated from various parts ,lt the country to the city of Adana, half of who he have since succumbed to disease. The stranf ,r. climate, distress, and extreme rapaciousne nd of the tax-gatherers a3gravate the mortalit it. " Mrs. Nolan was found dead in bed is Chicago with D knife wound in her side. H ge two little children are too young to give any Int count of the mothers death. The husba1 o1 said his wife died about nine o'cloc ie That he went for help, and afterward 6 drunk, and failed to return. He professes
 know nothing about his wife's wounds
 Two men, Fuller and Clemens, at Frederick .. burg, Mo-, quarreled about whisky, and Cleme shot Fuller with a double-barreled shot gu or putting the contents of two barrels into hi1 re- Fuller although nearly blown to pieces, stabb