Connecticut western news., 1875-01-15

Thomas Cox brought load of whisky into the Territory from Kansas, when they were met by deputy sheriffs Kousine and Colston, with a posse who had gone out to spill the whisky, under the laws of the Cherokee nation. DoubletoOth and Cox resisted. A fight ensued, and they were both killed, and Kouame and Colston were wounded. The latter. after being wounded. fled to the brush, but Rousine was taken home by the posse. Wash. Mays, another Indian who had a Srudge against Colston, gathered body of friends, pursued and over took him and riddled his body with bullets May and his party then fled to Chouteau, ir- :ssIili1s2 ::sl0zsIsois@=: :- !5,'':oz=e, 1za 9e clared they would not be taken alive The 1l~J,t oF tJ,e TJasI.s sA-.-- ---h Treasury January 1, 1875 s2, 142, 5ss. .3o2. O2 December l, 1874, g, 13s, 93s, ,334.14 Increase of debt during the past month S3, ,659, 967, ,SS decrease of debt since June 3O 1874, S4S9. 939, IT,
 Richard S. Borum, of Lee county. Miss. his wife, two children, and three negro boys were murdered, and their bodies consumed with the building. Such of the remains as could be found were taken to West Point for interment Intense excitement exists there, but there is TO cleu to the murderers. Complete returns of the Manitoba election show that Demo- crat, Independent, and 10 Republican mem bers have been elected . A description of the Mountain Meadow massacre by Rachel, wife No. of John D. Lee, states that at the time of the massacre Lee was living at Fort Harmony as Indian farmer under Brigham Young. It claims that these immigrants poisoned aspiring at Corn Creek, and an Indian and some stock died in consequence The Indians then rallied and followed the train, and, notwithstanding all the efforts of the Nor mons, the party was surrounded by the Indians. After several days hard fighting, Lee induced the immigrants to surrender their arms to him in two wagons, with which he started for Cedar city, telling them to follow for protection. Soon after he heard firing and sounds of the massacre Capt.. E. B. Ward, a wealthy capitalist, of Michigan, and owner of several iron works in the West, died suddenly of apoplexy on the streets of Detroit . The foreign exports of Richmond, Va., during the past year were $3,0 ,6S6. .... Sam Sharpley the famous Ethiopian comedian, died at Provi- dence, R. l., after long and painful illness.
 The father of Don Carlos has given his
 
 of the Bourbon Pretender expected to fol low his example, thus compelling Don Carlos to lay down his arms and recognize the new regime or retire to the exile. =. Upon the assembling of the Louisiana Legislature an intense excitement existed. Both the men claiming to be Governor of the State issued
 proclamations to the people. The Conservatives
 elected Witz for Speaker, the other party de- y elining to vote. Shortly after United States 5 troops entered the State house and unseated T the newly-elected Speaker and five other mem-
 bers. General Sheridan is in command in New
 Orleans, and telegraphed to Washington as
 follows: have to announce to you the exist
 cnce in this State of spirit of defiance to all
 lawful authority and an insecurity of life which
 is hardly realized by the general government
 or the country at large. The lives of citizens
 have become 50 jeopardized that unless some thing is done to give protection to the people
 all security usually afforded by law will be over Hidden. Defiance to the laws and the murder | of individuals seems to be looked upon by the community here from Q standpoint which givei , timpunty to all who choose to indulge in either and the civil government appears powerless tt punish or even arrest. %G ,tS r A post-mortem examnation was held ove 1 the body of Elizabeth Mccarthy, who wa , found dead in house in Jersey City, ant 3 it was ascertained that she froze to death, hay ing no fuel or covering. The Milwauke Circuit Court has appointed Judge Voorhees, r of Hackensack, and Henry L. White, of Jerse City, commissioners to take the testimony o , Mrs. D'Auffray, better known as the escape nun. Her evidence is to be used in sui l pending before that court for the purpose o 9 exposing the internal arrangements of convent 9 and nunneries. ... The debt of the city o Brooklyn, including all her obligations of what = ever character, amounts to the sum of $35, e 04S, 621.52, an increase ill the past year o $525, 115S2.. ... The debt of the city of Ne, u York is about $40, ,O00, ,000. ..The evidenc A in the Vicksburg case shows that seventy-si negroes and two white men were killed in tn | attack upon the city Sir Henry Elliot, tn Q Q British Ambassador at Constantinople, ha " lodged a complaint with the Porte protestini ' against the increasing slave trade which i 1 being carried on in various parts of the Otto ' man Empire ill Africa. ... One of the boiler ? at the Franconia Iron Company's mill, at Ware
 ham, Mass, burst with 8 frightful explosion V demolishing the west end of the immens / building and shattering the entire structur '' more or less. Out of eighteen men in tn ' building, Edward Cafery was fatally and fou V others slightly injured.